Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the modernity of addiction/the addiction of modernity
  • Opium eating and political subjectivity before 1870
  • Narcotic addiction : "the secret leprosy of modern days"
  • Subjects of desire : race, gender and the personification of addiction
  • Legislating professional authority : the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914
  • The saved and the damned : the medicolegal solution to the double meaning of addiction.