A history of drugs : drugs and freedom in the liberal age / Toby Seddon.

  • Seddon, Toby.
Date:
2010
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Description

'A History of Drugs' details the history of the relationship between drugs and freedom over the last 200 years; thus disturbing and unravelling the 'naturalness' of the 'drug question', as it traces the multiple and heterogeneous lines of development out of which it has been assembled.

Publication/Creation

Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Physical description

x, 184 pages ; 25 cm

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Contents

Introduction : drugs, freedom and liberalism -- A conceptual map : freedom, the "will" and addiction -- Opium, regulation and classical liberalism : the Pharmacy act 1868 -- Drugs, prohibition and welfarism : the Dangerous drugs act 1920 -- Drugs, risk and neo-liberalism : the Drugs act 2005 -- Drugs as a regulation and governance problem -- Conclusions : drugs and freedom in the liberal age.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-174) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    FCF /SED
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ISBN

  • 9780415480277
  • 0415480272
  • 9780203880838
  • 0203880838