Title Governing habits : treating alcoholism in the post-Soviet clinic / Eugene Raikhel.

Publication Info.	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
	©2016

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
All Libraries - Shared Downloadable Materials	JSTOR Open Access Ebook	Downloadable
All patrons click here to access this title from JSTOR
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet	WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK JSTOR	Downloadable
Please click here to access this JSTOR resource

Description	1 online resource (xii, 231 pages).
	text file
	PDF
Series	Expertise: cultures and technologies of knowledge
	Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	States of crisis -- Assembling narcology -- Selling sobriety -- Prostheses for the will -- Rehabilitation from abroad.
Summary	"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 obscured more than they revealed. Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows how therapeutic practice and expertise is expressed in the highly specific, yet rapidly transforming milieu of hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers in postSoviet Russia. Rather than interpreting narcology as a Soviet survival or a local clinical world on the wane in the face of globalizing evidence-based medicine, Raikhel examines the transformation of the medical management of alcoholism in Russia over the past twenty years"-- Publisher's Web site
Note	Print version record.
Language	In English.
Subject	Alcoholics -- Institutional care -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
	Alcoholism -- Hospitals -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
	Alcoholism -- Treatment -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
	Post-communism -- Health aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
	Medical anthropology -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
	MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Diseases.
	MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	Alcoholism -- Hospitals. (OCoLC)fst00804483
	Alcoholism -- Treatment. (OCoLC)fst00804565
	Medical anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01013693
	Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg. (OCoLC)fst01212867
Other Form:	Print version: Raikhel, Eugene A., 1975- Governing habits. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016 9781501703126 (DLC) 2016026223 (OCoLC)951465404
ISBN	9781501707063 (electronic book)
	150170706X (electronic book)
Standard No.	10.7591/9781501707063 doi

-->

Permanent Link

Add a Review

Title Governing habits : treating alcoholism in the post-Soviet clinic / Eugene Raikhel.

Copies

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings