The Medicalization of Marijuana

The Medicalization of Marijuana takes the first comprehensive look at how patients negotiate incomplete medicalization and what their experiences reveal about our relationship with this controversial plant as it is incorporated into biomedicine.

The authors are a husband-and-wife team with more than thirty-five years collective experience writing on cannabis and drug policy topics, including contributions to more than two dozen books. Michelle Newhart, Ph.D., teaches Sociology and works as an instructional designer at Mt. San Antonio College. Previously, she has taught at University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the co-author of Understanding Research Methods (10th ed.) from Routledge. William Dolphin has taught English and Composition at San Francisco State University, Rhodes College, Azusa Pacific University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He currently teaches in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education at University of Redlands.

Preface. Marijuana, Cannabis, and Hemp: A Note on Terms. Introduction: A Tale of Two Patients. Chapter 1: The Social Construction of Cannabis Use. Chapter 2: The Landscape of Cannabis Policy. Chapter 3: Becoming a Patient. Chapter 4: Cannabis and the Doctor-Patient Interaction. Chapter 5: Medical Cannabis Use in Everyday Life. Chapter 6: Changing the Set: Creating Medical Routines of Cannabis Use. Chapter 7: The Power of Place: Changes to Setting. Chapter 8: Stereotypes, Stigma, and Mitigating Risk. Chapter 9: Strategies for Managing and Changing Cannabis Stigma. Chapter 10: Beyond Medicalization: Healthism and Pharmaceuticalization. Appendix: Research Methods. Index.