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The making of addiction : the 'use and abuse' of opium in nineteenth-century Britain / Louise Foxcroft.

Title: The making of addiction : the 'use and abuse' of opium in nineteenth-century Britain / Louise Foxcroft.
Author: Foxcroft, Louise, 1956-
Publication: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

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Description

vi, 199 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

A social and intellectual history of the concept of addiction, concentrating on the use and abuse of opiates. The book looks at public and personal perceptions of chronic opiate use in the nineteenth century and at the development of addiction as a medical condition, a disease entity, where no such definition had previously existed.

Series Statement

History of medicine in context

Uniform Title

History of medicine in context.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-188) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. experience of addiction in the early nineteenth century -- 3. Interpretations of nineteenth-century addiction : fact and fiction -- 4. Chinese influence -- 5. Poisonous drugs and the medical profession in the nineteenth century -- 6. Observation and experience : the enquiries of medicine into addiction -- 7. Late nineteenth-century theories of addiction : the pathologist, the physician, and the philosopher -- App. 1. Opium strengths and doses -- App. 2. Opium and alcohol.

ISBN

0754656330 (alk. paper)
9780754656333 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006016953

OCLC

69423259

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library