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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Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Amherst, [Mass.]
Univ. of Massachusetts Press
c 2007
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En: | Año: 2007 |
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Table of contents only |
Disponibilidad en Tübingen: | Disponible en Tübingen. UB: KB 9 E 921 |
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Sumario: | 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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Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Descripción Física: | XIV, 190 S. Ill. 23 cm |
ISBN: | 1558495657 1558495665 9781558495654 9781558495661 |