Righteous dopefiend
By: Philippe Bourgois, Jeff Schonberg.
Contributors: Schonberg, Jeff, 1967-
Series: California series in public anthropology -- 21; California series in public anthropology -- 21.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780520230880; 9780520254985
Subjects: Drug addicts -- United States -- Social conditions; Drug addicts -- United States -- Economic conditions; Homeless persons -- Drug use -- United States; Marginality, Social -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a theory of abuse --; title: Intimate apartheid --; title: Falling in love --; title: A community of addicted bodies --; title: Childhoods --; title: Making money --; title: Parenting --; title: Male love --; title: Everyday addicts --; title: Treatment --; title: Conclusion: critically applied public anthropology.