Drug effects
khat in biocultural and socioeconomic perspective
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Word Count
65,750 words, Guess
Page Count
263 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101598744909
- ISBN-139781598744903
- ISBN-139781598744910
- ISBN-139781611327885
- ISBN-101598744917
and 7 more
- ISBN-101611327881
- Library of Congress Control Number2011030972
- OCLC Control Number727705028
- OCLC Control Number954006924
- Better World Books9781598744910
- Better World Books9781598744903
- Open LibraryOL25249968M
Classifications
- DDC583/.85
- LCCHV5822.Q3 G49 2012
- LCCHV5822.Q3G49 2011
and 1 more
- LCCHV5822.Q3 G49 2016
Description
"Khat, marijuana, peyote--are these dangerous drugs or vilified plants with rich cultural and medical values? In this book, Lisa Gezon brings the drug debate into the 21st century, proposing criteria for evaluating psychotropic substances. Focusing on khat, whose bushy leaves are an increasingly popular stimulant and the target of vehement anti-drug campaigns, she explores biocultural and socioeconomic contexts on local, national, and global levels. Gezon provides a multidisciplinary examination of the plant's direct physical and psychological effects, as well as indirect social and structural effects on income and labor productivity, identity, gendered relationships, global drug discourses, and food security. This sophisticated, multileveled analysis cuts through the traditional battle lines of the drug debate and is a model for understanding and evaluating psychotropic substances around the world"--
Subjects
Series Statement
- Advances in critical medical anthropology -- v. 3
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