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Smoking privileges : psychiatry, the mentally ill, and the tobacco industry in America, Laura D. Hirshbein

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"Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century. Hirshbein, a medical historian and clinical psychiatrist, first shows how cigarettes functioned in the old system of psychiatric care, revealing that mental health providers long ago noted the important role of cigarettes within treatment settings and the strong attachment of many mentally ill individuals to their cigarettes. Hirshbein also relates how, as the sale of cigarettes dwindled, the tobacco industry quietly researched alternative markets, including those who smoked for psychological reasons, ultimately discovering connections between mental states and smoking, and the addictive properties of nicotine. However, Smoking Privileges warns that to see smoking among the mentally ill only in terms of addiction misses how this behavior fits into the broader context of their lives. Cigarettes not only helped structure their relationships with other people, but also have been important objects of attachment. Indeed, even after psychiatric hospitals belatedly instituted smoking bans in the late twentieth century, smoking remained an integral part of life for many seriously ill patients, with implications not only for public health but for the ongoing treatment of psychiatric disorders. Making matters worse, well-meaning tobacco-control policies have had the unintended consequence of further stigmatizing the mentally ill. A groundbreaking look at a little-known public health problem, Smoking Privileges illuminates the intersection of smoking and mental illness, and offers a new perspective on public policy regarding cigarettes"--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
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Extent
1 online resource (x, 212 pages)
Contents
  • Introduction: Smoking Privileges
  • chapter 1. Ecology of Smoking in Mental Hospitals through the 1970s
  • chapter 2. Conflict and Smoking in Mental Hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s
  • chapter 3. Smoker Psychology and the Tobacco Industry through the Early 1980s
  • chapter 4. Psychiatry Engages Smoking
  • chapter 5. The Many Faces of Nicotine --chapter 6. From Tolerance to Treatment
  • chapter 7. Tobacco Control and the Mentally Ill
  • chapter 8. Double Marginalization
  • Conclusion: Corporate Squeeze
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9781336199545
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Smoking privileges : psychiatry, the mentally ill, and the tobacco industry in America
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Smoking privileges
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psychiatry, the mentally ill, and the tobacco industry in America
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Laura D. Hirshbein
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Language
eng
Summary
"Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century. Hirshbein, a medical historian and clinical psychiatrist, first shows how cigarettes functioned in the old system of psychiatric care, revealing that mental health providers long ago noted the important role of cigarettes within treatment settings and the strong attachment of many mentally ill individuals to their cigarettes. Hirshbein also relates how, as the sale of cigarettes dwindled, the tobacco industry quietly researched alternative markets, including those who smoked for psychological reasons, ultimately discovering connections between mental states and smoking, and the addictive properties of nicotine. However, Smoking Privileges warns that to see smoking among the mentally ill only in terms of addiction misses how this behavior fits into the broader context of their lives. Cigarettes not only helped structure their relationships with other people, but also have been important objects of attachment. Indeed, even after psychiatric hospitals belatedly instituted smoking bans in the late twentieth century, smoking remained an integral part of life for many seriously ill patients, with implications not only for public health but for the ongoing treatment of psychiatric disorders. Making matters worse, well-meaning tobacco-control policies have had the unintended consequence of further stigmatizing the mentally ill. A groundbreaking look at a little-known public health problem, Smoking Privileges illuminates the intersection of smoking and mental illness, and offers a new perspective on public policy regarding cigarettes"--Provided by publisher
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Hirshbein, Laura D.
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index present
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non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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  • Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
  • Mentally ill
  • Psychiatric hospital patients
  • Tobacco industry
  • Smoking
  • HEALTH & FITNESS
  • MEDICAL
  • MEDICAL
  • MEDICAL
  • MEDICAL
  • MEDICAL
  • Smoking
  • Tobacco industry
  • United States
  • Psychische Störung
  • Rauchen
  • Sozialer Wandel
  • Smoking
  • Mentally Ill Persons
  • Object Attachment
  • Tobacco Industry
  • Tobacco Use Disorder
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Smoking privileges : psychiatry, the mentally ill, and the tobacco industry in America, Laura D. Hirshbein
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-207) and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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not applicable
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: Smoking Privileges -- chapter 1. Ecology of Smoking in Mental Hospitals through the 1970s -- chapter 2. Conflict and Smoking in Mental Hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s -- chapter 3. Smoker Psychology and the Tobacco Industry through the Early 1980s -- chapter 4. Psychiatry Engages Smoking -- chapter 5. The Many Faces of Nicotine --chapter 6. From Tolerance to Treatment -- chapter 7. Tobacco Control and the Mentally Ill -- chapter 8. Double Marginalization -- Conclusion: Corporate Squeeze
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ocn904960161
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 212 pages)
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unknown
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online
Isbn
9781336199545
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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22573/ctt13gbt3t
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not applicable
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Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)904960161
Label
Smoking privileges : psychiatry, the mentally ill, and the tobacco industry in America, Laura D. Hirshbein
Publication
Copyright
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-207) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
not applicable
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: Smoking Privileges -- chapter 1. Ecology of Smoking in Mental Hospitals through the 1970s -- chapter 2. Conflict and Smoking in Mental Hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s -- chapter 3. Smoker Psychology and the Tobacco Industry through the Early 1980s -- chapter 4. Psychiatry Engages Smoking -- chapter 5. The Many Faces of Nicotine --chapter 6. From Tolerance to Treatment -- chapter 7. Tobacco Control and the Mentally Ill -- chapter 8. Double Marginalization -- Conclusion: Corporate Squeeze
Control code
ocn904960161
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 212 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781336199545
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt13gbt3t
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)904960161

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