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The secret leprosy of modern days : narcotic addiction and cultural crisis in the United States, 1870-1920 / Timothy A. Hickman.
- Hickman, Timothy Alton
- Date
- 2007
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Physical description
xiv, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-178) and index.
Contents
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.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFCF.6.AA8-9Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781558495661
- 1558495665
- 9781558495654
- 1558495657