... 15 LENNARD J. DAVIS AN EXCESS OF SEX Sex Addiction as Disability I was a loving, caring man alright, but that loving and caring had to have its focus on a woman who fed the loving and caring...

... INTRODUCTION EUGENE RAIKHEL AND WILLIAM GARRIOTT TRACING NEW PATHS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ADDICTION This volume provides a critical examination of ‘‘addictiona relatively new but increasingly prominent way of thinking about and intervening into the...

... TWO NATASHA DOW SCHÜLL BALANCING ACTS Gambling-Machine Addiction and the Double Bind of Therapeutics Terry’s Machines Terry, a small woman in her early sixties with short gray hair and deep-set blue eyes, lives in a ground floor studio unit of...

... SIX E. SUMMERSON CARR SIGNS OF SOBRIETY Rescripting American Addiction Counseling We do not object to the drug user’s pleasure per se, but a pleasure taken in an experience without truth. —Jacques Derrida, Points . . . Interviews, 1974–1994 It has...

... EIGHT WILLIAM GARRIOTT ‘‘YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL WHO’S USING METH’’ Methamphetamine Addiction and the Semiotics of Criminal Difference In the spring of 2007, Dwight Tanner, a white working-class man in his early forties, pled guilty in a rural West...

... TEN A. JAMIE SARIS COMMITTED TO WILL What’s at Stake for Anthropology in Addiction I am a poet who has made it known that I do not give readings. I am a person who becomes quite a jackass when drunk, and when sober I don’t have anything to say, so...

... AFTERWORD EMILY MARTIN FOLLOWING ADDICTION TRAJECTORIES This volume enables us to look at the concept of addiction with ethnographic and historical eyes. We not only come to grasp the culturally entrenched (and hence often invisible) defining as- sumptions...

...Addiction Markets The Case of High-Dose Buprenorphine in France anne m. lovell In 1996, France became the first nation to introduce buprenorphine, a syn- thetic opiate, as the major modality for the long-term treatment of problem opiate use. In a novel setup, the national commission on...

...part three The Public Life chapter five Addiction and the Ends of Desire The striking thing about Miss Penelosa, the mesmerist in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story ‘‘The Parasite’’ (1894), is not that she can make her sub- jects perform certain actions but that she can make them...

... 4 Internet Wars, Sex Addiction, and the Crucifixion of Tiger Woods read a small library of books in trying to make sense of Tigergate. Many observers, anthropologists and not, point to how scandal Imay be manipulated, sometimes manufactured...

... Queer Theory Addiction[ NEVILLE HOAD After Sex 1: A Cigarette ‘‘after sex My first response is a simple and personal one: ‘‘A cigarette There could be a slightly perverse queer theoretical and political project in that postcoital cigarette clustered as it is around familiar...

... ONE ANGELA GARCIA THE ELEGIAC ADDICT Eternal Return On the cusp of her thirtieth birthday, Alma Gallegos was dis- covered lying in the parking lot near the emergency-room en- trance at Española Hospital. Like many patients who present at this...

..., and often competing, demands of pregnancy and addiction. ...

... 3 Addictive Reading and Professional Authorship There is no Frigate like a Book A Word dropped careless on a Page To take us Lands away May stimulate an eye Nor any Coursers like a Page When folded in perpetual seam Of...