The Street Addict Role Patrick Dundas

The Street Addict Role Patrick DundasThis book provides a new answer to the question, "Why do people use heroin and other street drugs?" Drawing upon a growing body of studies of drug users conducted by sociologists and anthropologists, it attempts to integrate their findings into a theoretically unified sociocultural explanation of heroin use. The theory, which draws heavily upon the insights of symbolic interactionist and role theory, posits that there is a street subculture of heroin

Straightforward scholarly work is juxtaposed here with altogether more experimental approaches to fieldwork and analysis

from birth to death

Influence of nutrition

who were fleeing enslavement on neighboring islands and were later recognized as free by local authorities

from the humanities to the social and biological sciences

Thomas Lake Harris

not only reexamines the current debates in normative democratic theory

and geographers

the text is also a platform for discussing the rapidly expanding need for rigorous literature review approaches across diverse settings and professional groups

and the public writings and private notes of artists to reconstruct the intellectual history of Germanism during a period of heightened nationalism and political competition

the views of Luther and Calvin

592 colour illustrations