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Alexander, Tom. "Still Waiting, Watchfully." Fortune (13 May 1996): 73.

Appadurai, Arjun. The Social Life of Things. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 3-91.

Baard, Erik. "The Guilt-Free Soldier." The Village Voice (January 22 - 28, 2003).

Becker, Howard. "Becoming a Marijuana User." American Journal of Sociology 59 (1953): 235-242.

Bourgois, Philippe. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Braithwaite, John, and Peter Drahos. Global Business Regulation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 360-398.

Cohen, Jay S. Overdose: the Case Against the Drug Companies: Prescription Drugs, Side Effects, and Your Health. New York: Putnam, 2001, pp. 1-35, 129-247.

Collin, Matthew. Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House. London: Serpent's Tail, 1998, pp. 267-316.

Concar, David. "Ecstasy on the Brain." New Scientist 174, no. 2339 (20 April 2002): 26-33.

Courtwright, David T. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Diller, Lawrence. Running on Ritalin. New York: Bantam Books, 1998, pp. 47-55.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.

Gootenberg, Paul. "Making a Modern Drug" (Chap. 2), and "Columbia: Cocaine and the 'Miracle' of Modernity in Medellin" (Chap. 8). In Cocaine: Global Histories. London; New York: Routledge, 1999, pp. 21-45, 165-182.

Grove, Andy. "Taking on Prostate Cancer." Fortune (13 May 1996): 55-72.

Hacking, Ian. "Making Up People." In The Science Studies Reader. Edited by Mario Baigioli. New York: Routledge, 1999, pp. 161-171.

Hamilton, Jean. "Sex and Gender as Critical Variables in Psychotropic Drug Research." In Mental Health, Racism and Sexism. Edited by Charles V. Willie. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995, pp. 297-349.

Hamoway, Ronald. Dealing with Drugs: Consequences of Government Control. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1987, pp. 74-103, 247-279.

Healy, David. The Creation of Psychopharmacology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 334-390.

Healy, David.The Antidepressant Era. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Hogshire, Jim. Pills-A-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation into Pill Marketing, Art, History and Consumption. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 1999, pp. 8-54.

"Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses." JAMA 272, no. 21 (December 7, 1994): 1672-1677.

Hively, Will. "The Mathematics of Making up Your Mind." Discover Magazine 17, no. 5 (May 1996): 90-97.

Kramer, Peter D. Listening to Prozac. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Lakoff, Geroge. "Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf." In Engulfed in war: Just War and the Persian Gulf. Edited by Brien Hallett. Honolulu: Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 1991. (also available online)

Lender, Mark Edward, and James Kirby Martin. Drinking in America: A History. New York: Free Press, pp. 169-204.

Males, Mike A. The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents. Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press, 1996, pp. 159-217.

Martin, Brian. "Fluoridation: Breaking the Science Barrier." In Confronting the Experts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

McCann, U. D., Z. Szabo, U. Scheffel, R. F. Dannals, and G. A. Ricaurte. "Positron emission tomographic evidence of toxic effect of MDMA ("Ecstasy") on brain serotinin neurons in human beings." The Lancet 352 (October 31, 1998): 1433-1437.

Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power, The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Viking, 1985.

MIT. "The Working Group on Dangerous Drinking: Final Report to President Charles M. Vest." May 13, 1998.

"Steriods." New Yorker (10 September 2001).

Ogilvy, David. Ogilvy on Advertising. New York: Crown, 1983, pp. 158-166.

Orlik, Peter B. Electronic Media Criticism. Boston, MA.: Focal Press, 1994, pp. 153-172, 195-214.

Rampton and Stauber. Trust Us, We're Experts! : How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with your Future. New York: Putnam, 2001, pp. 7-30, 222-266.

Roseberry, William. "The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States." American Anthropologist 98, no. 4 (December 1996): 762-775, 762-774.

Russell, Dan. "Fake Science." In Drug War: Covert Money, Power and Policy. Camden, N.Y.: Kalyx.com, 2000.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.

Schlosser, Eric. "Reefer Madness." The Atlantic Monthly (August 1994): 45-63.

Shenk, Joshus Wolf. "America's Altered States." Harper's Magazine (May 1999): 38-52.

Sedgwick, Eve. "Epidemics of the will." In Incorporations. Edited by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter. New York: Zone Books, 1992, pp. 582-595.

Silverstein, Ken. "Millions for Viagra, pennies for diseases of the poor." The Nation (19 July 1999): 13-19.

Stein, Howard F. "Alcoholism as Metaphor in American Culture: Ritual Desecration as Social Integration." Ethos 13, no. 3 (Fall 1985): 195-235.
Abstracted in Language and Language Behavior Abstracts and/or Sociological Abstracts, 1985. An abbreviated version appeared in High Plains Applied Anthropologist 6, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 1986): 15-18.

Stipp, David. "The Gender Gap in Cancer Research." Fortune (13 May 1996): 74-76.

Swartzwelder, Scott. Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.

Weil, Andrew, and Winifred Rosen. From Chocolate to Morphine - Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

Weinberg, Bennett Alan, and Bonnie K. Bealer. The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 181-233.

Weiss, Rick. "On Ecstasy, Consensus Is Elusive." The Washington Post (September 2002): A07.

Willett, Walter C. "Balancing Lifestyle and Genomics Research for Disease Prevention in Later Life." Science 296, no. 26 (April 2002): 695-698.



 



 








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