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Whiteout
Helena Hansen
Jules Netherland
David Herzberg
其他書名
How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2023-03-28
主題
Family & Relationships / General
Law / Drugs & the Law
Medical / Internal Medicine
Self-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN
0520384059
9780520384057
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_FycEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.
In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were “deaths of despair” signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities.
Whiteout
makes the counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis was the product of white racial privilege as well as despair.
Anchored by interviews, data, and riveting firsthand narratives from three leading experts—an addiction psychiatrist, a policy advocate, and a drug historian—
Whiteout
reveals how a century of structural racism in drug policy, and in profit-oriented medical industries led to mass white overdose deaths. The authors implicate racially segregated health care systems, the racial assumptions of addiction scientists, and relaxed regulation of pharmaceutical marketing to white consumers.
Whiteout
is an unflinching account of how racial capitalism is toxic for all Americans.