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...Tony Payan Duke University Press 2006 Tony Payan The Drug War and the U.S.-Mexico Border: The State of Affairs The U.S.-Mexico border has long been the set- ting for America’s longest war: the drug war. The first...

...William E. DeTurk Drugs, Medicines, and Man . By Bum Harold . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1962 . Pp. viii , 248 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Book Reviews 153 soundness of judgment, in the case of the chapter headed The American Scene...

...Nancy Scheper-Hughes This essay explores the militarization of everyday life in the United States today, following decades of unresolved cycles of wars fought at home (e.g., the war on drugs) and abroad. A “continuum of violence” is established, through which the tactics of war and war crimes...

...Kaushik Sunder Rajan In this essay, I explore how the contemporary global terrain of drug development is constituted by different logics of crisis. I explore this terrain through an empirical focus on pharmaceutical logics and politics in the United States and India today, which are constituted...

...Chris Garces To keep drugs and weapons out and to generate security clearance, Ecuador’s prison administrations now demand the visual, digital, or physical strip searching of all adult citizens who establish contact with incarcerated subjects. The prison system may normalize such denuding...

... immigration control and drug interdiction, while also engaging in their own efforts to pick up trash left behind by undocumented border crossers and protect natural resources from degradation caused by border enforcement and smuggling activities. In their effort to “clean up” public lands, land managers...

...Carlos Salinas The A'i or Kofan people of Colombia face seemingly intractable challenges due to the extraction of oil from their lands, the ongoing conflict in Colombia, the infrastructural imperatives of globalization, and the continuing hunger for illicit drugs in cosmopolitan centers. Underlying...

...-American leaders have been expected to rise transcendentally above yellow, black, brown, and red leaders. In an attempt to gain rights to traffick as much opium as they wanted in the late eighteenth century, white Englishmen profiting from dealing drugs to the Chinese successfully lobbied the British Crown...

... in New York City s East Village. The girl had been repeatedly raped. The heads of both had been battered and crushed with bricks. The couple was believed to be under the influence of the powerful drug methamphetamine hydrochloride on the night of their deaths. It was surmised, reported the press...

... consider bad publicity hysteria in limousines, knife fights in the audience, bizarre litigation, treachery, pandemonium and drugs. Perhaps the only natural law attaching to true fame is that the famous man is compelled, eventually, to commit suicide. (Is it clear 1 was a hero of rock n roll?) When I...

... and promising to refrain from further parti­ cipation in it, the memorialists also strongly implied that opium was a definite hindrance to their legitimate trade. They claimed that over the preceding five-year period the illegal trade in the drug had drawn from China into the coffers of Great Britain and her...

..., in no small measure because of the novel’s sub- ject matter—drugs and violence. Reviewing the growth of ‘‘yardie’’ fiction, a journalist for an American newspaper explains: ‘‘Britain’s growing drug and criminal subculture is rarely...

...-provoking. The book will prove a source of continuous reference, clarification, and stimulation. DUKE UNIVERSITY KENNETH REARDON Drugs, Medicines, and Man. By Harold Bum. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1962. Pp. viii, 248. $4.50. During the last fifteen years a bewildering number of new drugs have been...

... of modem medicine than any people, still spend an estimated billion dollars each year on drugs, diets, and devices that are sheer quackery. Equally discouraging is the continuing trend of the Congress to legislate by stimulus of disaster. Only when assassinations occur do we pass gun-control legislation...

... medicine than any people, still spend an estimated billion dollars each year on drugs, diets, and devices that are sheer quackery. Equally discouraging is the continuing trend of the Congress to legislate by stimulus of disaster. Only when assassinations occur do we pass gun-control legislation. Only when...

..., A say fuck. A say shit. The Drugs I mean, I’ve taken the drugs. And you know, they don’t make things real better. They may make you love your own mind, but you know how...

... 1906 and 1981. The dates in my title signify, of course, my wish to make this lec­ ture an event in the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of tlje Food and Drugs Act of 1906. Seventy-five years ago the House Committee on Interstate and For­ eign Commerce held a flamboyant hearing, running...

..., based on the imperatives of a bourgeois capitalist society (33). 798 The South Atlantic Quarterly October 2022 Foucault then appeared to shift the topic of discussion. Alluding to contemporary phenomena that had better captured this problem, he asked: What is the experience of drugs...

.... Any disruption of the smooth running of this system The Mythology of Baseball 299 gestates the specter of drastic curtailments of basic freedoms of our free society. The voluntary drug-testing scheme announced by Commissioner Ueberroth in the summer of 1985, for example, responding to fan...