Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World

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?

Author: N. Campbell, E. Ettorre
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/04/2011
Pages: 253
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230228559

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2012

About the Author
NANCY CAMPBELL is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, USA. She focuses on intersections between history of science, drug policy and gender studies.

ELIZABETH ETTORRE is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has also written, Revisioning Women and Drug Use.