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The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days : Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920 /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Autor principal:	Hickman, Timothy Alton
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Colección:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:	Narcotic laws > United States > History. Drug control > United States > History. Drug addiction > United States > History. Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo

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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.