Title: Medicalizing addictions, criminalizing addicts: Race, politics and profit in narratives of addiction Pub No: 3194408 Author: Glenn, Jason Edwin Degree: PhD School: HARVARD UNIVERSITY Date: 2005 Pages: 413 Adviser: Harrington, Anne ISBN: 0-542-39177-5 Source: DAI-A 66/11, p. 4162, May 2006 Subject: HISTORY OF SCIENCE (0585); HISTORY, UNITED STATES (0337); HISTORY, BLACK (0328); LAW (0398) Abstract: The focus of this dissertation is a historical investigation of the interactions, convergences, but especially the tensions and disjunctions that mark the political and medical histories of addiction theory and policy throughout the period of the War on Drugs, as begun in the Nixon presidency through the beginning of the first Bush administration. This project aims to give other scholars working toward drug policy reform an additional tool in their efforts: a historical perspective that illuminates the culture-systemic reasons why drug abuse remains such a symbolically charged, as well as an economically and politically lucrative issue. It argues that, if drug use is the systemic consumptive response to the metaphysical ills of the citizens of the United States, then a punitive drug policy has functioned as the answering mechanism by which lower class, inner city drug users are sacrificed in a ritual of justice and retribution that functions to create identity-affirming cohesion for the rest of American society. ------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Policing for profit: United States imperialism and the international drug economy Pub No: 3195479 Author: Reiss, Suzanna J. Degree: PhD School: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Date: 2005 Pages: 308 Adviser: Kelley, Robin D. G. ISBN: 0-542-40362-5 Source: DAI-A 66/11, p. 4159, May 2006 Subject: HISTORY, UNITED STATES (0337); HISTORY, LATIN AMERICAN (0336) Abstract: This dissertation is a study of the circulation and control of coca commodities (including coca leaves, pharmaceutical-grade cocaine, and Coca-Cola) in the western hemisphere from World War II through the early Cold War. The history of drug control provides a window onto the hemispheric political and ideological order the United States government pursued with the expansion of the American capitalist system. It studies the delineation of a line between legal and illegal participation in the international provision and consumption of drug commodities and the attendant managerial arrangements of global power. The project presumes the global as a constitutive element of figurations of national power, and by tracing participation and control over the flow of drug commodities (and the social and political narratives which accompanied them), grounds the history of the rise of US capitalism within the international sphere from which it sought raw materials, consumer markets and political and economic collaborators. The dissertation examines the postwar rise to global dominance of the American pharmaceutical industry; the extension of markets for U.S. manufactured commodities overseas; and the selective criminalization of 'drug' production and consumption within an international capitalist economic system where the aggressive marketing of some drugs, to some people, was encouraged. It is a study of US empire and the ways in which control over the manufacturing, distribution and consumption of commodities within the capitalist system has shaped the cultural, legal and economic lives of people and the inter/national geography within which they live. Studying the business of health and warfare through attempts to control and pursue the legal and illegal provisions of medicaments, reveals the ways in which diplomatic leverage in contexts of both war and peace has operated historically in part through efforts to control the flow of strategic commodities. The research reveals how cultural narratives about drugs, and public health and safety intersected with institutional powers in the United States at mid-century to consolidate the authority of select corporate and state participants in the drug trade and control apparatus, while structuring an unequal relationship between the United States and other countries in the hemisphere. ------------------------------------------------------------ Forwarded by: David T. Courtwright John A. Delaney Presidential Professor Dept. of History University of North Florida Jacksonville, FL 32224-2645 Home office: (904) 745 0530 University office: (904) 620-1872 Fax: (904) 620-1018 Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>