Confronting the drug control establishment : Alfred Lindesmith as a public intellectual /
"Confronting the Drug Control Establishment is a biography of Alfred R. Lindesmith and an intellectual history of his times. A sociologist at Indiana University, Lindesmith believed legal prohibition of addictive drugs was futile and wrote widely on the threat to democracy inherent in such a po...
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
c2000.
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| Series: | SUNY series in deviance and social control.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1.
- Origins and Overview of the Professional Life of Alfred Ray Lindesmith
- Ch. 2.
- Lindesmith's Experience in the Chicago School of Sociology: The Influence of Herbert Blumer and Edwin Sutherland
- Ch. 3.
- A Revised Theory of Opiate Addiction and the Writing of the Book Opiate Addiction
- Ch. 4.
- Contributions to Psychotherapy, Social Psychology, and Symbolic Interaction
- Ch. 5.
- Lindesmith versus Anslinger: Efforts to Reform National Drug Policy, 1937-1950 and the Film Drug Addict
- Ch. 6.
- Writing The Addict and the Law: A Statement of Policy
- Ch. 7.
- Public Discourse: Lindesmith in the Role of Humanist Citizen and Public Intellectual.