Carceral Recovery is a medical anthropologist’s account of demoralizing disciplinary and punitive approaches that continue to shape people’s experience of recovery in an American city and makes a case for dis-entangling punitive approaches from the experience of substance use.
This book uses the notion of ‘discretionary medicine’ to explore the landscape of contemporary healthcare in Pakistan.
This book uses the notion of ‘discretionary medicine’ to explore the landscape of contemporary healthcare in Pakistan.
Drawing on archival research and ethnography in Baltimore, Kahn shows how addiction is shaped by intertwined systems of care and punishment—and argues that meaningful recovery requires breaking the carceral logics that govern substance use policy.