the politics of therapeutic talk and American sobriety /
First Statement of Responsibility
E. Summerson Carr
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Princeton :
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Princeton University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2011
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xiii, 323 p. :
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ill. ;
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25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-315) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Considering the politics of therapeutic language -- Identifying icons and the policies of personhood -- Taking them in and talking it out -- Clinographies of addiction -- Addicted indexes and metalinguistic fixes -- Therapeutic scenes on an administrative stage -- Flipping the script
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Title
Scripting addiction.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Communication and culture
Culture-- Semiotic models
Drug abuse-- Treatment
Language and culture
Medical anthropology
Anthropology, Cultural-- methods-- United States
Communication-- United States
Language-- United States
Substance-Related Disorders-- therapy-- United States