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The Making of Addiction The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain
By Louise Foxcroft
Copyright 2007
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction. Part 1 The Cultural History of Addiction in 19th-century Britain: The experience of addiction in the early-19th century; Interpretations of 19th-century addiction: fact and fiction; The Chinese influence. Part 2 The Medical History of Addiction in 19th-century Britain: Poisonous drugs and the medical profession in the 19th century; Observation and experience: the enquiries of medicine into addiction; Late-19th-century theories of addiction: the pathologist, the physician and the philosopher. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Louise Foxcroft is an Independent Scholar based in Cambridge.
