The medicalization of marijuana: legitimacy, stigma, and the patient experience

Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs. The Medicalization of Marijuana takes the first comprehensive look at how patients negotiate...

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Main Authors: Newhart, Michelle (Author), Dolphin, William (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2018
Edition:1st
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Summary:Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs. The Medicalization of Marijuana takes the first comprehensive look at how patients negotiate incomplete medicalization and what their experiences reveal about our relationship with this controversial plant as it is incorporated into biomedicine. Is cannabis used similarly to other medicines? Drawing on interviews with midlife patients in Colorado, a state at the forefront of medical cannabis implementation, this 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, Newhartand 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
Item Description:Preface Marijuana, Cannabis, and Hemp: A Note on Terms Introduction: A Tale of Two Patients Chapter 1: The Social Construction of Cannabis Use Chapter 2: The Landscape of Cannabis Policy Chapter 3: Becoming a Patient Chapter 4: Cannabis and the Doctor-Patient Interaction Chapter 5: Medical Cannabis Use in Everyday Life Chapter 6: Changing the Set: Creating Medical Routines of Cannabis Use Chapter 7: The Power of Place: Changes to Setting Chapter 8: Stereotypes, Stigma, and Mitigating Risk Chapter 9: Strategies for Managing and Changing Cannabis Stigma Chapter 10: Beyond Medicalization: Healthism and Pharmaceuticalization Conclusion: Medicalization and the Future of Cannabis Medicine Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Annotated Index of Patients by Pseudonym Index
Physical Description:1 online resource illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:9780429833779
0429833776
9780429833786
0429833784
9780429833762
0429833768
9780429450464
042945046X

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