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Addicted to rehab : race, gender, and drugs in the era of mass incarceration / Allison McKim.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813587653
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV5801 .A335 2017
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Subject: Sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two women's rehab programs, one located in the criminal justice system and one located in the private healthcare system--two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class. Â Â
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Rehab Is the New Black; Chapter 1: Intake. Pathways to Treatment; Chapter 2: Women's Treatment Services. Addicted to Punishment; Chapter 3: Women's Treatment Services. Habilitating Broken Women; Chapter 4: Gladstone Lodge. Haven for the Chemically Dependent; Chapter 5: Gladstone Lodge. Learning to Live Sober; Conclusion. Governing through Addiction; Methodological Appendix; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Read More in the Series

Sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two women's rehab programs, one located in the criminal justice system and one located in the private healthcare system--two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class. Â Â

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