The secret leprosy of modern days : narcotic addiction and cultural crisis in the United States, 1870-1920 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hickman, Timothy Alton
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Drug addiction > United States > History.
Drug control > United States > History.
Narcotic laws > United States > History.
Social values.
Social Problems > history
Substance-Related Disorders > history
Drug and Narcotic Control > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Legislation, Drug > history
Social Values
Toxicomanie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Valeurs sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Social values
Drug addiction
Drug control
Narcotic laws
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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