Author: Francis Edmund AnstiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcohol
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Stimulants and Narcotics, Their Mutual Relations
Author: Francis Edmund AnstiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcohol
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
An Odd Kind of Fame
Author: Malcolm MacmillanPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262632591
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The true story of the first case to reveal the relation between the brain and complex personality characteristics.
When Good Drugs Go Bad
Author: Dan MalleckPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774829222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. How did this happen? Dan Malleck examines the conditions that led to Canada’s current drug laws. Drawing on newspaper accounts, medical and pharmacy journals, professional association files, asylum documents, physicians’ case books, and pharmacy records, Malleck demonstrates how a number of social, economic, and cultural forces converged in the early 1900s to influence lawmakers and criminalize addiction. His research exposes how social concerns about drug addiction had less to do with the long pipe and shadowy den than with lobbying by medical professionals, a growing pharmaceutical industry, and concern about the morality and future of the nation.
The Making of Addiction
Author: Louise FoxcroftPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317024826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the past. This book uncovers the original influences that shaped the creation and the various interpretations of addiction as a disease, and of addiction to opiates in particular. It delves into the treatments, regimes, and prejudices that surrounded the condition, a newly emerging pathological entity and a form of 'moral insanity' during the nineteenth century. The source material for this book is rich and surprising. Letters and diaries provide the most moving material, detailing personal struggles with addiction and the trials of those who cared and despaired. Confessions of shame, deceit, misery and terror sit alongside those of deep sensual pleasure, visionary manifestations and blissful freedom from care. The reader can follow the lifelong opium careers of literary figures, artists and politicians, glimpse a raw underworld of hidden drug use, or see the bleakness of urban and rural poverty alleviated by daily doses of opium. Delving into diaries, letters and confessions this book exposes the medical case histories and the physician's mad, lazy, commercial, contemptuous, desperate, altruistic and frustrated attempts to deal with drug addiction. It demonstrates that many of the stigmatising prejudices arose from false 'facts' and semi-mythical beliefs and thus has significant implications, not only for the history of addiction, but also for how we view the condition today.
Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Author: Adam ColmanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030015904
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature focuses especially on formal invention—on the uses of literary patterns for intensified, exploratory engagement with unattained possibility—resulting from literary intersections with addiction discourse. Early chapters consider how Romantics such as Thomas De Quincey created, with regard to drug habit, an idea of habitual craving that related to self-experimenting science and literary exploration; later chapters look at Victorians who drew from similar understandings while devising narratives of repetitive investigation. The authors considered include De Quincey, Percy Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Marie Corelli.
The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian Literature
Author: Medical Record
Author: George Frederick ShradyPublisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Medical record
Author: Thirty Years in Hell
Author: Daniel Frederick MacMartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Passions in their relations to health and diseases
Author: Xavier BourgeoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libertinism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description