| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome. |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Graveyard -- The elegiac addict -- Blood relative -- Suicide as a form of life -- Experiments with care -- Conclusion: a new season. |
| Summary |
The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape-northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. We discover how history pervades this region that has endured centuries of material and cultural dispossession, and we come to see its heroin problem as a contemporary expression of these co. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Heroin abuse -- New Mexico.
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Heroin abuse. |
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New Mexico. |
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Drug addicts -- New Mexico.
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Drug addicts. |
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New Mexico. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Garcia, Angela, 1971- Pastoral clinic. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520258297 (DLC) 2010001811 (OCoLC)503594617 |
| ISBN |
9780520947825 (electronic book) |
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0520947827 (electronic book) |
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9780520258297 |
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0520258290 |
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9780520262089 |
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0520262085 |
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1282660861 |
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9781282660861 |
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9786612660863 |
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6612660864 |
| Standard No. |
9786612660863 |
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