The pursuit of oblivion : a global history of narcotics /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Norton,
[2002]
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Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Early history
- 2. Opium during the enlightenment
- 3. The patent age of new inventions
- 4. Nerves, needles and Victorian doctors
- 5. Chemistry
- 6. Degeneration
- 7. The dawn of prohibition
- 8. Law-breaking
- 9. Trafficking
- 10. The age of anxiety
- 11. The first drugs czar
- 12. British drug scenes
- 13. Presidential drugs wars
- 14. So passé.