Drugging The Poor

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478610243

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Drugging the Poor by Merrill Singer Pdf

Singer offers a fresh set of ideas for understanding how the global socioeconomic system insures that massive quantities of psychotropic drugs reach the poorest sectors of American society. Drugging the Poor provides a unified theoretical framework to assess how all drugs, including tobacco, heroin, alcohol, cocaine, and diverted pharmaceuticals contribute to maintaining social inequality among the wealthier and poorer social classes in American society. Singers analysis rejects conventional approaches that see tobacco or alcohol manufacturers and distributors, on the one hand, and drug cartels and mafias, on the other, as completely different entities. Instead, he shows how legal and illegal drug corporations share key features and follow the same economic principles. He also emphasizes that mixing legal and illegal drugs to self-medicate against social discrimination, poverty, and structural violence offers short-term relief, but in the long run, it functions to maintain an unjust and oppressive system. Drugging the Poor actively challenges the assumption that how things are is how they always have been or how they need to be.

Author : Sandra Sherman
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Charities
ISBN : 0814208851

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Imagining Poverty by Sandra Sherman Pdf

An interdisciplinary study of public attitudes towards the poor in Britain between 1790 and 1835. Sandra Sherman reconsiders a question that has challenged social historians for years: what changes (political, economic and philosophical) lead to the New Poor Law of 1834? As new, scientific methods of regulating the poor were adopted - such as statistics, cost accounting, and cost-benefit analyses - old fashioned paternalism gave way to newer modalities in which the poor were not addressed as individuals but instead were managed en masse. The poor became poverty, a political/economic condition that could be managed from a distance by professionals who had no contact with individuals and made no accommodations to them.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : PURD:32754062024389

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Drugs in Institutions: Formerly institutionalized persons and physicians by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Child care
ISBN : UOM:39015013770485

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Drugs in institutions by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015058511075

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London Medical and Surgical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jules Ginswick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351561211

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Labour and the Poor in England and Wales, 1849-1851 by Jules Ginswick Pdf

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : UOM:39076002739030

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Drugs and Development by Merrill Singer Pdf

Author : National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000119087140

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Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) Pdf

The volume for 1886 contains the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886."

Author : K. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230594050

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Hard and Unreal Advice by K. Martin Pdf

The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.

Author : Daniel L. Hatcher
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479826971

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The Poverty Industry by Daniel L. Hatcher Pdf

The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social programs meant to support disadvantaged Americans Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities’ federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor’s prisons. In The Poverty Industry, Daniel L. Hatcher shows us how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net, turning America’s most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue. The poverty industry is stealing billions in federal aid and other funds from impoverished families, abused and neglected children, and the disabled and elderly poor. As policy experts across the political spectrum debate how to best structure government assistance programs, a massive siphoning of the safety net is occurring behind the scenes. In the face of these abuses of power, Hatcher offers a road map for reforms to realign the practices of human service agencies with their intended purpose and to prevent the misuse of public taxpayer dollars. With more Americans than ever before seeking unemployment benefits, it is essential to remedy the nefarious practices that will impede them from receiving the full government support they are due. The Poverty Industry shows us the path to rectify this systemic inequality to ensure that government aid truly gets to those in need.

Author : Barbara Leonardi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319967707

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Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond by Barbara Leonardi Pdf

This book explores the intersections of gender with class and race in the construction of national and imperial ideologies and their fluid transformation from the Romantic to the Victorian period and beyond, exposing how these cultural constructions are deeply entangled with the family metaphor. For example, by examining the re-signification of the “angel in the house” and the deviant woman in the context of unstable or contingent masculinities and across discourses of class and nation, the volume contributes to a more nuanced understanding of British cultural constructions in the long nineteenth century. The central idea is to unearth the historical roots of the family metaphor in the construction of national and imperial ideologies, and to uncover the interests served by its specific discursive formation. The book explores both male and female stereotypes, enabling a more perceptive comparison, enriched with a nuanced reflection on the construction and social function of class.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : PURD:32754062024405

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Drugs in Institutions: Interstate placement and traffic in children and their drugging by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency Pdf

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351631709

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Humane Helping by Eric Maisel Pdf

Humane Helping is a comprehensive, practical guide that helps clinicians shift their practice from the mental disorder-and-chemical fix and expert-talk models to a more humane, helpful model that increases their ability to help clients meet life’s challenges and reduce emotional distress. Chapters clearly explain the shortfalls of the current models and the advantages of Eric Maisel’s model and include case studies, reflection questions, and actionable steps. Written for helping professionals in mental health as well as practitioners from fields such as coaching and nursing, Humane Helping challenges current practices and provides helpers with the tools they need to more compassionately, effectively, and honestly serve their clients.

Author : Norman Ohler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Anti-communist movements
ISBN : 1328663795

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Blitzed by Norman Ohler Pdf

A fast-paced, highly original history that uncovers the full extent of drug use in Nazi Germany--from Hitler's all-consuming reliance on a slew of substances, to the drugs that permeated the regime and played an integral role in Germany's military performance and ultimate downfall in World War II

Author : Pamela Donovan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137575173

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Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging by Pamela Donovan Pdf

This book analyses common perceptions about drink-spiking, a pervasive fear for many and sometimes a troubling reality. Ideas about spiked drinks have shaped the way we think about drugs, alcohol, criminal law, risk, nightspots, and socializing for over one hundred and fifty years, since the rise of modern anaesthesia and synthetic 'pharma-ubiquity'. The book offers a wide-ranging look at the constantly shifting cultural and gender politics of 'psycho-chemical treachery'. It provides rich case histories, assesses evolving scientific knowledge, and analyses the influence of social forces as disparate as Temperance and the acid enthusiasts of the 1960s. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, the book will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of criminal law, forensic science, public health, and social movements.