The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (SIGNED)

Angela Garcia

ISBN 10: 0520262085 / ISBN 13: 9780520262089

Published by University of California Press, 2010

About this Item

Signed & dated by author on first page. Gift quality. 1st Printing of paperback edition. Clean, bright, tight, unmarked copy w/no rips or creases. Quick, secure shipping w/free delivery confirmation. Seller Inventory # 006755

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and ...

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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 Hispanic 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 social inequality, drug and alcohol abuse, and material and cultural dispossession, and we come to see its experience of the opioid epidemic as a contemporary expression of these conditions, as well as a manifestation of the human desire to be released from them. With lyrical prose, evoking the Española Valley and its residents through conversations, encounters, and recollections, The Pastoral Clinic is at once a devastating portrait of immigration and addiction, a rich ethnography of place, and an eloquent call to political activists, politicians, and medical professionals for a new ethics of substance abuse treatment and care.

About the Author:

Angela Garcia is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.