Comprehending Drug Use

J. BRYAN PAGE is a professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Miami. He is a leading ethnographer studying the use of particular drugs in different cultures. The author of dozens of articles in major journals, he has also contributed many book chapters in the fields of medicine and anthropology, especially drug research.MERRILL SINGER is a professor in the department of anthropology and a senior research scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention at the University of Connecticut. He is also affiliated with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University and the Global Center on Health in Central Asia at Columbia University. Having authored or edited more than twenty books and two hundred articles and book chapters, he is also the recipient of several distinguished awards.

• Through ethnographic eyesThe emergence of drug ethnographySystematic modernist ethnography and ethnopharmacologyDrug ethnography since the emergence of AIDSDrugs and globalization: from the ground up and the sky downThe conduct of drug ethnography: risks, rewards, and ethical quandaries in drug research careersCareer paths in drug-related ethnography: from falling to callingGender and drug use: drug ethnography by women about womenThe future of drug ethnography as reflected in recent developments

"For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." - Geoffrey Hunt (Institute for Scientific Analysis) "Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." (Choice) "For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." - Geoffrey Hunt (Institute for Scientific Analysis) "Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." (Choice)