Stevenson Andrew (Manchester Metropolitan University And Aquinas College Stockport) - Cultural Issues In Psychology An Introduction To A Global Discipline - Paperback Infertility & Fertilization Publication Date: 2/5/2009

Publication Date: 2/5/2009

The "peaceful atom" had so much propaganda potential that President Dwight Eisenhower used it to distract the world from his plan to test even bigger thermonuclear weapons

The authors examine and assess the following key topics: How drugs feature in anthropology and the work of anthropologists and the general role of drugs in society Comparison between biochemical and pharmacological approaches to drugs and bio - socio - cultural models of understanding drugs Evolutionary origins of psychotropic drug sensitivity and archaeological evidence for the spread of psychoactive substances in pre - history Drugs in spiritual and religions contexts considering their role in altered states of consciousness divination and healing Stimulant drugs and the ambivalence with which they are treated in society Addiction and dependency Drug economies livelihoods and the production and distribution segments of drug commodity chains Drug policies and drug wars Drugs race and gender The future of the study of drugs and anthropological professional engagements with solving drug problems With the inclusion of chapter summaries and many examples further reading and case studies including drug tourism drug industries in the Philippines and Mexico Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle and the opioid crisis in North America The Anthropology of Drugs is an ideal introduction for those coming to the topic for the first time and also for those working in the professional and health sectors

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Stevenson Andrew (Manchester Metropolitan University And Aquinas College Stockport) - Cultural Issues In Psychology An Introduction To A Global Discipline - Paperback Infertility & Fertilization Publication Date: 2/5/2009Binding: Paperback Description: This book offers an engaging introduction to cultural and cross cultural psychology and offers an interdisciplinary approach to the key research theories and controversies that impact on human behaviour in a global context. How is human behavior and experience intertwined with culture? From this starting point this second edition of Cultural Issues in Psychology explores the role of culture in relation to mainstream and