{"product_id":"smoking-privileges-psychiatry-the-mentally-ill-and-the-tobacco-industry-in-america-9780813563961","title":"Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America","description":"Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as \u003ci\u003ehalf \u003c\/i\u003eof the smokers in America. In \u003ci\u003eSmoking Privileges\u003c\/i\u003e, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century.Hirshbein, a medical historian and clinical psychiatrist, first shows how cigarettes functioned in the old system of psychiatric care, revealing that mental health providers long ago noted the important role of cigarettes within treatment settings and the strong attachment of many mentally ill individuals to their cigarettes. Hirshbein also relates how, as the sale of cigarettes dwindled, the tobacco industry quietly researched alternative markets, including those who smoked for psychological reasons, ultimately discovering connections between mental states and smoking, and the addictive properties of nicotine. However, \u003ci\u003e Smoking Privileges\u003c\/i\u003e warns that to see smoking among the mentally ill only in terms of addiction misses how this behavior fits into the broader context of their lives. Cigarettes not only helped structure their relationships with other people, but also have been important objects of attachment. Indeed, even after psychiatric hospitals belatedly instituted smoking bans in the late twentieth century, smoking remained an integral part of life for many seriously ill patients, with implications not only for public health but for the ongoing treatment of psychiatric disorders. Making matters worse, well-meaning tobacco-control policies have had the unintended consequence of further stigmatizing the mentally ill.A groundbreaking look at a little-known public health problem, \u003ci\u003eSmoking Privileges\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the intersection of smoking and mental illness, and offers a new perspective on public policy regarding cigarettes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura D. Hirshbein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813563961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLAURA D. HIRSHBEIN, M.D. is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (Rutgers University Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40180656439411,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e64a4b5b-7a6c-4143-8d69-afd9f601f269.jpg?v=1655471457","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/smoking-privileges-psychiatry-the-mentally-ill-and-the-tobacco-industry-in-america-9780813563961","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}