The cult of pharmacology : how America became the world's most troubled drug culture / Richard DeGra...
The cult of pharmacology : how America became the world's most troubled drug culture / Richard DeGra...
The cult of pharmacology : how America became the world's most troubled drug culture / Richard DeGrandpre.
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Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
Call Numbers
G 2014/2403
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Language
English
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Physical content
294 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Mama Coca -- Cult of the SSRI -- The emperor's new smokes -- The placebo text -- America's domestic drug affair -- War -- The drug reward -- Possessed by the stimulus -- Ideology -- Escalation of American drug laws in the twentieth century -- U.s. regulations encouraging a white market for drugs in...
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Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2006.
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Summary
"The Cult of Pharmacology tells the dramatic story of how, as one legal drug after another fell from grace, new pharmaceutical substances took their place. Whether Valium or OxyContin at the pharmacy, cocaine or meth purchased on the street, or alcohol and tobacco from the corner store, drugs and drug use proliferated in twentieth-century America d...
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The cult of pharmacology : how America became the world's most troubled drug culture / Richard DeGrandpre.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF/N615.1/174.
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Other version (online)
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G 2014/2403
Record Identifier
74VKJLq58LdM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJLq58LdM
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ISBN
0822338815 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822338819 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
615.1
MMS ID
991022191729702626
