Getting Wrecked by Kimberly Sue
Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. As incarceration has become a predominant American social policy for managing the problem of drug use, including the opioid epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis of substance use disorder. An addiction physician and medical anthropologist, Kimberly Sue powerfully illustrates the impacts of incarceration on women’s lives as they seek well-being and better health while confronting lives marked by structural violence, gender inequity, and ongoing trauma.-
Pathologies of Power
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
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The Land of Open Graves
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Reimagining Global Health
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To Repair the World
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Righteous Dopefiend
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Illegality, Inc.
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Why Did They Kill?
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Shadows of War
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Partner to the Poor
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Annihilating Difference
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When Bodies Remember
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Counting the Dead
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The United States of War
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Leave If You Can
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Archaeology as Political Action
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Paradise in Ashes
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Exit Wounds
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Total Confinement
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Global Outlaws
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Chechnya
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Blind Spot
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Life in Traffic
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Democratic Insecurities
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Nuclear Ghost
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Dispossessed
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Deported to Death
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Returned
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They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields
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The Spectacular Favela
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Driving after Class
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Living with Difference
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Jornalero
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Making Global MBAs
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Fighting to Breathe
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The Spirit Ambulance
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The Succeeders
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Scratching Out a Living
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Anti-Eviction
"In this volume [Sue] offers an eye-opening account of the gendered dimensions of the 'War on Drugs'—Highly recommended" * CHOICE *
"Sue demonstrates empathy for the women she has come to know, as well as realism regarding the harshness of their circumstances." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *
"Sue demonstrates empathy for the women she has come to know, as well as realism regarding the harshness of their circumstances." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *
Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD, is the Medical Director at Harm Reduction Coalition, a national nonprofit organization working to improve the lives and health of people who use drugs. She completed her studies at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Anthropology at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and completed her medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in internal medicine, with a focus on primary care and addiction. She also sees patients at the Rikers Island jail system in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520293205 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520293207 |
| Title | Getting Wrecked |
| Author | Kimberly Sue |
| Series | California Series In Public Anthropology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2019-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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