The secret leprosy of modern days: narcotic addiction and cultural crisis in the United States, 1870 - 1920
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 auth...
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Amherst, [Mass.]
Univ. of Massachusetts Press
c 2007
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In: | Year: 2007 |
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Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 9 E 921 |
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Summary: | 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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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Physical Description: | XIV, 190 S. Ill. 23 cm |
ISBN: | 1558495657 1558495665 9781558495654 9781558495661 |