Caroline Jean Acker
Biographic Data
| ID | 965727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Jean Acker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Acker |
| SIGNATURE | ACKER C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Strange Trips
In Strange Trips Lucas Richert sets up several axes of comparison that enable him to examine the mix of parties and interests that contend over how best to manage drugs in a way that maximized perceived benefits and avoided perceived harms. His case studies include legal and illegal drugs, drugs used as medicines and drugs used recreationally, and psychoactive and nonpsychoactive drugs. He compares the United States and Canada as each country's g…
Sexual contexts and the process of risk reduction
Understanding the dynamics of sexual risks for HIV among men who have sex with men has been one of the ongoing challenges of HIV prevention. While the majority of HIV-prevention interventions target individual behaviour and decision making, multiple studies point to the importance of social context in shaping risk behaviour. Analysis of qualitative data from a study of men who have sex with men, drug use and sex found that sexual encounters were …
How crack found a niche in the American ghetto
Money, Drugs, and Bodies
Research on men who sell sex has primarily focused on psychological profiles and HIV risk factors. Substantially less literature examines the consumers in the male-to-male exchange sex dyad. This article examines the perspectives of venders and consumers. Data come from a qualitative study of a group of 26 men who recently exchanged sex for money or drugs in New York City. Findings indicate that a complex set of interactions between motivation, c…
Neighborhood history as a factor shaping syringe distribution networks among drug users at a U.S. syringe exchange
The Quest for Drug Control
Reviewed by: The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 1963-1981 Caroline Jean Acker David F. Musto and Pamela Korsmeyer . The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 1963-1981. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xxiv + 312 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-300-09036-6). The cover photographs on David F. Musto and Pamela Korsmeyer's book aptly il…
Pharmacopolitics
Reviewed by: Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany Caroline Jean Acker Arthur A. Daemmrich . Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 203 pp. Ill. $34.95 (0-8078-2844-0). As more illnesses are managed with drug regimens rather than invasive treatments, drugs represent an ever-larger segment of rising me…
Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams
Journal Article Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs. By Jill Jonnes (New York: Scribner, 1996. 510pp.) Get access Caroline Jean Acker Caroline Jean Acker Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Fall 1999, Pages 179–183, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.1999.0001 Published: 01 October 1999
Consuming habits
Addiction and the Laboratory
Stigma or Legitimation? A Historical Examination of the Social Potentials of Addiction Disease Models
This article presents a historical discussion of disease models of opiate addiction in the United States in the twentieth century. First, several approaches to defining disease are discussed. Then, the shifts in formulations of opiate addiction as a disease in the twentieth century in the U.S. are analysed in light of the preceding theoretical discussion. The period before 1920 is described as heterodox, as researchers attempted to develop scient…
The War on Drugs
Social Meanings of Disease
Social Meanings of Disease: Changing Concepts of Addiction in the Twentieth Century Get access Caroline J. Acker Caroline J. Acker Caroline J. Acker is a doctoral candidate in History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Formerly, she was director of Up Front Drug Information in Miami, Florida, and editor of Street Pharmacologist. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine o…
Neighborhood history as a factor shaping syringe distribution networks among drug users at a U.S. syringe exchange
Money, Drugs, and Bodies
Research on men who sell sex has primarily focused on psychological profiles and HIV risk factors. Substantially less literature examines the consumers in the male-to-male exchange sex dyad. This article examines the perspectives of venders and consumers. Data come from a qualitative study of a group of 26 men who recently exchanged sex for money or drugs in New York City. Findings indicate that a complex set of interactions between motivation, c…
Strange Trips
In Strange Trips Lucas Richert sets up several axes of comparison that enable him to examine the mix of parties and interests that contend over how best to manage drugs in a way that maximized perceived benefits and avoided perceived harms. His case studies include legal and illegal drugs, drugs used as medicines and drugs used recreationally, and psychoactive and nonpsychoactive drugs. He compares the United States and Canada as each country's g…
Social Meanings of Disease
Social Meanings of Disease: Changing Concepts of Addiction in the Twentieth Century Get access Caroline J. Acker Caroline J. Acker Caroline J. Acker is a doctoral candidate in History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Formerly, she was director of Up Front Drug Information in Miami, Florida, and editor of Street Pharmacologist. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine o…
The War on Drugs
Stigma or Legitimation? A Historical Examination of the Social Potentials of Addiction Disease Models
This article presents a historical discussion of disease models of opiate addiction in the United States in the twentieth century. First, several approaches to defining disease are discussed. Then, the shifts in formulations of opiate addiction as a disease in the twentieth century in the U.S. are analysed in light of the preceding theoretical discussion. The period before 1920 is described as heterodox, as researchers attempted to develop scient…
Addiction and the Laboratory
Consuming habits
Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams
Journal Article Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs. By Jill Jonnes (New York: Scribner, 1996. 510pp.) Get access Caroline Jean Acker Caroline Jean Acker Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Fall 1999, Pages 179–183, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.1999.0001 Published: 01 October 1999
Pharmacopolitics
Reviewed by: Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany Caroline Jean Acker Arthur A. Daemmrich . Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 203 pp. Ill. $34.95 (0-8078-2844-0). As more illnesses are managed with drug regimens rather than invasive treatments, drugs represent an ever-larger segment of rising me…
The Quest for Drug Control
Reviewed by: The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 1963-1981 Caroline Jean Acker David F. Musto and Pamela Korsmeyer . The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 1963-1981. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xxiv + 312 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-300-09036-6). The cover photographs on David F. Musto and Pamela Korsmeyer's book aptly il…
Neighborhood history as a factor shaping syringe distribution networks among drug users at a U.S. syringe exchange
How crack found a niche in the American ghetto
Money, Drugs, and Bodies
Research on men who sell sex has primarily focused on psychological profiles and HIV risk factors. Substantially less literature examines the consumers in the male-to-male exchange sex dyad. This article examines the perspectives of venders and consumers. Data come from a qualitative study of a group of 26 men who recently exchanged sex for money or drugs in New York City. Findings indicate that a complex set of interactions between motivation, c…
Sexual contexts and the process of risk reduction
Understanding the dynamics of sexual risks for HIV among men who have sex with men has been one of the ongoing challenges of HIV prevention. While the majority of HIV-prevention interventions target individual behaviour and decision making, multiple studies point to the importance of social context in shaping risk behaviour. Analysis of qualitative data from a study of men who have sex with men, drug use and sex found that sexual encounters were …
Strange Trips
In Strange Trips Lucas Richert sets up several axes of comparison that enable him to examine the mix of parties and interests that contend over how best to manage drugs in a way that maximized perceived benefits and avoided perceived harms. His case studies include legal and illegal drugs, drugs used as medicines and drugs used recreationally, and psychoactive and nonpsychoactive drugs. He compares the United States and Canada as each country's g…
Medicine (12 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Drug (5 works) · Addiction (4 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (4 works)