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Gendering Addiction The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World

Gendering Addiction The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World

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This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not?

Keywords

Social ScienceDisease & Health IssuesGender StudiesSociologyMarriage & FamilyFeminism & Feminist TheoryLawMedical Law & Legislation

2011Book

Author(s)Nancy D. Campbell

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780230228559

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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