Description |
1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
SUNY series in deviance and social control |
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SUNY series in deviance and social control.
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Contents |
Origins and overview of the professional life of Alfred Ray Lindesmith -- Lindesmith's experience in the Chicago School of Sociology: the influence of Herbert Blum ... -- A revised theory of opiate addiction and the writing of the book Opiate addiction -- Contributions to psychotherapy, social psychology, and symbolic interaction -- Lindesmith versus Anslinger: efforts to reform national drug policy, 1937-1950 and the film Drug addict -- Writing The addict and the law: a statement of policy -- Public discourse: Lindesmith in the role of humanist citizen and public intellectual |
Summary |
"Confronting the Drug Control Establishment is a biography of Alfred R. Lindesmith and an intellectual history of his times. A sociologist at Indiana University, Lindesmith believed legal prohibition of addictive drugs was futile and wrote widely on the threat to democracy inherent in such a policy." "Throughout his life Lindesmith attempted to utilize his research for the creation of more rational and humane drug control laws. His consistent message was that the addict's self-concept is a central element in human addiction. Lindesmith felt that an overriding influence on an addict's self-concept is a fear of withdrawal, which keeps an addict from seeking treatment and becomes a key driving force in the drug problem."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Lindesmith, Alfred Ray, 1905-1991.
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SUBJECT |
Lindesmith, Alfred Ray, 1905-1991 fast |
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Lindesmith, Alfred Ray. swd |
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Social psychologists -- United States -- Biography
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Sociologists -- United States -- Biography
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Opium abuse.
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Drug legalization -- United States
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Opioid abuse.
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Social psychology.
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Sociology.
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Sociologists -- United States -- Biography
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Drug and Narcotic Control
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Opioid-Related Disorders
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Psychology, Social
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Sociology
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social psychology.
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sociology.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Sociology
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Social psychology
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Opioid abuse
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Drug legalization
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Opium abuse
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Social psychologists
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Sociologists
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Drogenpolitik
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SUBJECT |
United States |
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United States
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USA
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Galliher, John F
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ISBN |
0585317976 |
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9780585317977 |
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9780791443941 |
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0791443949 |
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