| #558515 in Books | 2016-12-06 | Original language:English | 9.00 x.56 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 248 pages||||"With vivid portrayals of how clinicians harness broad social forces in the quest for patient sobriety, Governing Habits engages foundational questions at the unruly nexus of clinical authority and legitimate care. The story of the social crafting of
Critics of narcology―as addiction medicine is called in Russia―decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his research in a range of clinical institutions managing substance abuse in St. Petersburg, Eugene Raikhel increasingly came to understand that these assumptions and critiques obscu...
You easily download any file type for your device.Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge) | Eugene Raikhel. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
