David L Herzberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 795073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Herzberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Herzberg |
| SIGNATURE | HERZBERG D L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Pill You Love Can Turn on You
This essay analyzes the cultural politics of a late-1970s Valium addiction scare in the context of other episodes of American drug hysteria. Since the days of "Demon Rum," antidrug campaigns in the U.S. typically associated drugs with marginal populations such as immigrants, nonwhites, or the urban poor. The "drug menace" helped dramatize the threat posed by such "dangerous classes" to "our" society, while mobilizing state police power to control…
Drug Wars and Wonder Drugs
Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics. By Curtis Marez. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 347 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs. By Jonathan Michel Metzl. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 275 pages. $24.95 (cloth). $10.95 (paper). At a certain moment in the 1960s, it would not have been surprising to hear reports of counterculture avatars suc…
The Pill You Love Can Turn on You
This essay analyzes the cultural politics of a late-1970s Valium addiction scare in the context of other episodes of American drug hysteria. Since the days of "Demon Rum," antidrug campaigns in the U.S. typically associated drugs with marginal populations such as immigrants, nonwhites, or the urban poor. The "drug menace" helped dramatize the threat posed by such "dangerous classes" to "our" society, while mobilizing state police power to control…
Drug Wars and Wonder Drugs
Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics. By Curtis Marez. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 347 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs. By Jonathan Michel Metzl. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 275 pages. $24.95 (cloth). $10.95 (paper). At a certain moment in the 1960s, it would not have been surprising to hear reports of counterculture avatars suc…
The Pill You Love Can Turn on You
This essay analyzes the cultural politics of a late-1970s Valium addiction scare in the context of other episodes of American drug hysteria. Since the days of "Demon Rum," antidrug campaigns in the U.S. typically associated drugs with marginal populations such as immigrants, nonwhites, or the urban poor. The "drug menace" helped dramatize the threat posed by such "dangerous classes" to "our" society, while mobilizing state police power to control…
Art (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Consciousness (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works)