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The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days : Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.