Marsha Rosenbaum, Sheigla Murphy

Broschiertes Buch

Pregnant Women on Drugs

Combating Stereotypes and Stigma

Beschreibung

Through interviews with 120 pregnant, or recently delivered, drug-using women, this book examines pregnant drug addicts make choices about drug use, pregnancy and pre-natal care. The authors seek to understand the feelings and motivations of the women themselves.

Autor

MARSHA ROSENBAUM is director emerita of the San Francisco office of the Drug Policy Alliance, where she spearheaded DPA's work on youth and drugs and created the Safety First booklet.  She received her doctorate in medical sociology from the University of California at San Francisco in 1979. From 1977 to 1995, Rosenbaum was the principal investigator on National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded studies of heroin addiction, methadone maintenance treatment, MDMA (Ecstasy), cocaine, and drug use during pregnancy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 139mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780813526034
• ISBN-10: 0813526035
• Artikelnr.: 21467357