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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1. VerfasserIn: Hickman, Timothy A. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Hickman, Timothy Alton
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amherst, [Mass.] Univ. of Massachusetts Press c 2007
In:Jahr: 2007
Online Zugang: Table of contents only
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UB: KB 9 E 921
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Schlagwörter:
Drug Addiction > History > United States
Drug Addiction > United States > History
Drug control > History > United States
Drug control > United States > History
Narcotic laws > History > United States
Narcotic laws > United States > History
USA > Drogenabhängigkeit > Drogenpolitik > Geschichte 1870-1920
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 190 S. Ill. 23 cm
ISBN:1558495657
1558495665
9781558495654
9781558495661