{"product_id":"governing-habits-treating-alcoholism-in-the-post-soviet-clinic-paperback","title":"Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEugene Raikhel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritics of narcology--as addiction medicine is called in Russia--decry it as being \"backward,\" hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his research in a range of clinical institutions managing substance abuse in St. Petersburg, Eugene Raikhel increasingly came to understand that these assumptions and critiques obscured more than they revealed. \u003ci\u003eGoverning Habits\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows how therapeutic practice and expertise is expressed in the highly specific, yet rapidly transforming milieu of hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers in post Soviet Russia. Rather than interpreting narcology as a Soviet survival or a local clinical world on the wane in the face of globalizing evidence-based medicine, Raikhel examines the transformation of the medical management of alcoholism in Russia over the past twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaikhel's book is more than a story about the treatment of alcoholism. It is also a gripping analysis of the many cultural, institutional, political, and social transformations taking place in the postSoviet world, particularly in Putin's Russia. \u003ci\u003eGoverning Habits\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to a wide range of readers, from medical anthropologists, clinicians, to scholars of post-Soviet Russia, to students of institutions and organizational change, to those interested in therapies and treatments of substance abuse, addiction, and alcoholism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEugene Raikhel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAddiction Trajectories\u003c\/i\u003e as well as founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eSomatosphere\u003c\/i\u003e, an online forum for medical anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51781311693088,"sku":"9781501703133","price":70.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2211e32d4db3f17c283564d173c7ddcd.webp?v=1780547435","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/governing-habits-treating-alcoholism-in-the-post-soviet-clinic-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}