Drugs and narcotics in history / edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich.
Drugs and narcotics in history / edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich.
Drugs and narcotics in history / edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich.
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Publisher
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N615.109/6
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine /John Scarborough -- 2. Exotic substances: the introduction and global spread of tobacco, coffee, cocoa, tea, and distilled liquor, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Rudi Matthee -- 3. Pharmacological experimentation with opium in the eighteenth...
9. Research and development in the UK pharmaceutical industry from the nineteenth century to the 1960s /Judy Slinn -- 10. AIDS, drugs, and history / Virginia Berridge -- 11. Anomalies and mysteries in the 'War on Drugs' / Ann Dally.
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Publisher
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1995.
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Summary
This collection of new essays explores the complex and contested histories of drugs and narcotics in societies from ancient Greece to the present day. The Greek term pharmakon means both medicament and poison. The book shows how this verbal ambivalence encapsulates the ambiguity of man's use of chemically-active substances over the centuries to dim...
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Drugs and narcotics in history / edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N615.109/6
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74VMxvXlg54Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMxvXlg54Z
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ISBN
052158597X (pbk.)
9780521431637
0521431638
DDC
615.109
MMS ID
991002645689702626
