This section contains the readings for the course. Since participation counts as 20% towards a student's grade, students are expected to complete the readings for each session before class.
Books
Weil, Andrew, and Winifred Rosen. From Chocolate to Morphine. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. ISBN: 9780618483792.
Myerhoff, Barbara. Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1976. ISBN: 9780801491375.
Bourgois, Philippe. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521574600.
Slater, Lauren. Prozac® Diary. New York, NY: Penguin, 1998. ISBN: 9780140263947.
Angell, Marcia. The Truth About the Drug Companies: How they Deceive Us and What to do about it. New York, NY: Random House, 2004. ISBN: 9780375508462.
Recommended Readings
Kuhn, Cynthia, Scott Swartzwelder, and Wilkie Wilson. Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs From Alcohol to Ecstasy. New York, NY: Norton, 1998. ISBN: 9780393317329.
Inciardi, James, and Karen McElrath, eds. The American Drug Scene: An Anthology. 3rd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury, 2000. ISBN: 9781891487361.
Goode, Erich. Drugs in American Society. 6th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004. ISBN: 9780072874983.
Readings by Session
The table below provides information about the course's lecture (L) and quiz (Q) sessions.
SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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L1 | Introduction | |
L2 | Some Preliminary Ideas |
Weil, and Rosen. From Chocolate to Morphine. pp. 9-35 and 161-182.
Becker, Howard. "Becoming a Marihuana User." American Journal of Sociology 59 (1953): 235-242.
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L3 | Alcohol in the U.S. |
Movie: Reefer Madness
Wechsler, Henry. "Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College." Journal of the American Medical Association 272, no. 21 (1994): 1672-1676.
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L4 | Alcohol Across Cultures |
Guest Speaker: Alcoholics Anonymous Mandelbaum, David. "Alcohol and Culture." Current Anthropology 6, no. 3 (1965): 281-288. Leacock, Seth. "Ceremonial Drinking in an Afro-Brazilian Cult." American Anthropologist 66, no. 2 (1964): 344-354.
Spicer, Paul. "Toward a (Dys)functional Anthropology of Drinking: Ambivalence and the American Indian Experience with Alcohol." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11, no. 3 (1993): 306-323.
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L5 | "Primitive" Drugs |
Documentary: The Peyote Road Myerhoff, Barbara. Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974. Calabrese, Joseph. "The Supreme Court Versus Peyote: Consciousness, Alteration, Cultural Psychiatry and the Dilemma of Contemporary Subcultures." Anthropology of Consciousness 12, no. 2 (2001): 4-19. |
L6 | Drugs and American Counterculture |
Movie: Timothy Leary is Dead
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L7 | Cocaine, Latin America and Globalization |
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L8 | Cocaine Consumption |
Bourgois, Philippe. Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996, introduction and chapters 1-2. |
Q1 | Quiz 1 | |
L9 | Crack Dealers | Guest Speakers Finish Bourgois. |
L10 | The War on Drugs |
Office of National Drug Control Policy Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. Swiss Drugs Policy (undated). (skim.) Musto, David F. "Opium, Cocaine and Marijuana in American History." Scientific American (1991): 21-33.
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L11 | The War on Drugs (cont.) |
Shenk, Joshua Wolf. "America's Altered States." Harper's, May 1999, 38-52.
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L12 | Modern Pharmaceuticals: Sex |
Silverstein, Ken. "Millions for Viagra®, Pennies for the Poor." The Nation, July 19, 1999, 13-19. |
Q2 | Quiz 2 | |
L13 | Modern Pharmaceuticals: Prozac® Documentary: Happy Valley | Kramer, Peter. "The Message in the Capsule." In Listening to Prozac®: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self. New York, NY: Viking, 1993. Slater, Lauren. Prozac® Diary. |
L14 | Big Pharma | Angell, Marcia. The Truth About the Drug Companies. |