Bibliograph

Drugs and narcotics in history, edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich

Type

Label

Drugs and narcotics in history, edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Drugs and narcotics in history

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

222323184

Responsibility statement

edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich

Summary

This collection of new essays explores the complex and contested histories of drugs and narcotics in societies from ancient Greece to the present day. The Greek term pharmakon means both medicament and poison. The book shows how this verbal ambivalence encapsulates the ambiguity of man's use of chemically-active substances over the centuries to diminish pain, fight disease, and correct behaviour. It shows that the major substances so used, from herbs of the field to laboratory-produced synthetic medicines, have a healing potential, and have been widely employed both within and outside the medical profession

Table Of Contents

1. The, opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine /John Scarborough -- 2. Exotic substances: the introduction and global spread of tobacco, coffee, cocoa, tea, and distilled liquor, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Rudi Matthee -- 3. Pharmacological experimentation with opium in the eighteenth century / Andreas-Holger Maehle -- 4. The regulation of the supply of drugs in Britain before 1868 / S.W.F. Holloway -- 5. Das Kaiserliche Gesundheitsamt (Imperial Health Office) and the chemical industry in Germany during the Second Empire: partners or adversaries? / Erika Hickel -- 6. From all purpose anodyne to marker of deviance: physicians' attitudes towards opiates in the US from 1890 to 1940 /Caroline Jean Acker -- 7. Changes in alcohol use among Navajos and other Indians of the American Southwest /Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy --8. The drug habit: the association of the word 'drug' with abuse in American history / John Parascandola9., Research and development in the UK pharmaceutical industry from the nineteenth century to the 1960s /Judy Slinn -- 10. AIDS, drugs, and history / Virginia Berridge -- 11. Anomalies and mysteries in the 'War on Drugs' / Ann Dally

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