Michelle Newhart,William Dolphin
Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience
Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience
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The Medicalization of Marijuana explores how patients negotiate incomplete medicalization and what their experiences reveal about our relationship with this controversial plant as it is incorporated into biomedicine. It draws on interviews with midlife patients in Colorado, a state at the forefront of medical cannabis implementation, to explore practical decisions individuals confront about medical use, including whether cannabis will work for them, the risks of registering in a state program, and how to handle questions of supply, dosage, and routines of use.
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 280 pages
\n Publication date: 17 August 2018
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Medical marijuana laws have spread across the United States, except for a few states. However, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition create dilemmas for patients participating in state programs. The Medicalization of Marijuana takes a comprehensive look at how patients navigate incomplete medicalization and what their experiences reveal about our relationship with this controversial plant as it is incorporated into biomedicine. The book explores the practical decisions individuals confront about medical use, including whether cannabis will work for them, the risks of registering in a state program, and how to handle questions of supply, dosage, and routines of use.
Individual stories capture how patients redefine and reclaim cannabis use as legitimate, individually and collectively, and grapple with an inherently political identity. These experiences help illustrate how stigma, prejudice, and social change operate. By positioning cannabis use within sociological models of medical behavior, Newhart and Dolphin provide a wide-reaching, theoretically informed analysis of the issue that expands established concepts and provides new insight on medical cannabis and how state programs work.
\n Weight: 456g\n
Dimension: 225 x 167 x 17 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781138320888\n \n
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