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Tapping into The Wire : the real urban crisis
- Title
- Tapping into The Wire : the real urban crisis / Peter L. Beilenson and Patrick A. McGuire ; featuring a conversation with David Simon.
- Author
- Beilenson, Peter L.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- McGuire, Patrick A. (Patrick Anthony), 1946-
- Description
- xviii, 214 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Wire (Television program)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The new public health crisis : Wallace's world -- Heroin central : the street life of Bubbles, Marlo, and Johnny -- Losing the war on drugs : the pit versus the police -- Medicalize vs. legalize : Hamsterdam -- Needle exchange and the AIDS dilemma : sticking it to "the bug" -- Treatment on demand as a strategy : Walon's success story -- School performance and the MIA parent : the tragedy of Dukie's education -- Teenage pregnancy and STDS : Shardene's escape -- Firepower : Snoop's Beretta, Avon's Heckler, and Omar's Mossberg -- Place matters : why didn't Bodie just leave? -- Of paint and guns : did Omar die of lead poisoning? -- Obese yet malnourished : the weighty contradiction of Prop Joe -- Public health and politics : the promise and peril of Tommy Carcetti -- Learning from the wire: practicing politics to practice medicine.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-1102
- ISBN
- 9781421407500 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
- 1421407507 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781421407616 (electronic)
- 1421407612 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2012008014
- OCLC
- 778828653
- Author
- Beilenson, Peter L.
- Title
- Tapping into The Wire : the real urban crisis / Peter L. Beilenson and Patrick A. McGuire ; featuring a conversation with David Simon.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- McGuire, Patrick A. (Patrick Anthony), 1946-
- Added Title
- Wire (Television program)
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-1102