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Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers, Revised Edition
Thomas Szasz
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Description for Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers, Revised Edition
Paperback. In this polemical response to the controversy about drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labelling and prohibiting certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating "addicts" in order to cure them. Num Pages: 320 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labeling and prohibiting certain drugs as dangerous substances and incarcerating drug addicts in order to cure them. Szasz asserts that such policies scapegoat illegal drugs and the persons who use and sell them, and discourage the breaking of drug habits by pathologizing drug use as addiction. Readers will find in Szasz's arguments a cogent and committed response to a worldwide debate.
Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labeling and prohibiting certain drugs as dangerous substances and incarcerating drug addicts in order to cure them. Szasz asserts that such policies scapegoat illegal drugs and the persons who use and sell them, and discourage the breaking of drug habits by pathologizing drug use as addiction. Readers will find in Szasz's arguments a cogent and committed response to a worldwide debate.
Product Details
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
384g
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815607687
SKU
V9780815607687
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Reviews for Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers, Revised Edition
This highly original and fully appropriate title, something we have come to expect from Szasz's books, heralds an excellent sociological analysis of man's past and present relationships with drugs....Szasz takes the reader through a religious scenario as imaginatively symbolic and insightfully analytic as any morality play can be.