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Taming Cannabis
Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France
Häftad, 2020
495 kr
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Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisingly, France was once the epicentre of a global movement to medicalize cannabis, specifically hashish, in the treatment of disease. In …
Cigarette Nation
Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930-1975
Häftad, 2021
495 kr
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In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and 1970s. In Cigarette Nation, Daniel Robinson …
Remedicalizing Cannabis
Science, Industry, and Drug Policy
Inbunden, 2022
481 kr
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When cannabis tincture was withdrawn from the medical establishment in the UK in 1973, cannabis became regulated solely as an illicit drug. Within a decade cannabis-based drugs were back in the clinic. The UK is one of the biggest producers of medicinal cannabis, but few patients have access to …
Drugging France
Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2022
1615 kr
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In the nineteenth century, drug consumption permeated French society to produce a new norm: the chemical enhancement of modern life. French citizens empowered themselves by seeking pharmaceutical relief for their suffering and engaging in self-medication. Doctors and pharmacists, meanwhile, …
Drugging France
Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2022
481 kr
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In the nineteenth century, drug consumption permeated French society to produce a new norm: the chemical enhancement of modern life. French citizens empowered themselves by seeking pharmaceutical relief for their suffering and engaging in self-medication. Doctors and pharmacists, meanwhile, …
Mixing Medicines
The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia
Inbunden, 2022
1385 kr
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Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the Americas, in addition to its own sprawling empire, to heal its ailing tsars.Mixing Medicines explores the dynamic …
Mixing Medicines
The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia
Häftad, 2022
423 kr
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Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the Americas, in addition to its own sprawling empire, to heal its ailing tsars.Mixing Medicines explores the dynamic …
Psychedelic New York
A History of LSD in the City
Av Chris Elcock
Inbunden, 2023
1500 kr
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As LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a different branch of psychedelic history – one that is sprawling, layered, and centred on New York City. A …
Psychedelic New York
A History of LSD in the City
Av Chris Elcock
Häftad, 2023
395 kr
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As LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a different branch of psychedelic history – one that is sprawling, layered, and centred on New York City. A …
Disparate Remedies
Making Medicines in Modern India
Inbunden, 2023
1500 kr
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At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960.The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical …
Disparate Remedies
Making Medicines in Modern India
Häftad, 2023
538 kr
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At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960.The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical …
Art, Medicine, and Femininity
Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870–1914
Inbunden, 2024
983 kr
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"Paris is the centre of the cult," wrote Robert Hichens in Felix, his 1902 novel on the rising number of morphine addictions in Europe. In Paris, artists depicted the morphine addict numerous times, yet they disregarded the reality of France's addiction problem: male medical professionals made up …
Thirst for Wine and War
The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front
Inbunden, 2024
1270 kr
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Beginning in the fall of 1914, every French soldier on the Western Front received a daily ration of wine from the army. At first it was a modest quarter litre, but by 1917 it had increased to the equivalent of a full bottle each day. The wine ration was intended to sustain morale in the trenches, …
Thirst for Wine and War
The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front
Häftad, 2024
481 kr
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Beginning in the fall of 1914, every French soldier on the Western Front received a daily ration of wine from the army. At first it was a modest quarter litre, but by 1917 it had increased to the equivalent of a full bottle each day. The wine ration was intended to sustain morale in the trenches, …
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires
Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618–1968
Inbunden, 2024
1270 kr
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The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College of Physicians of London considered a proposal to develop an imperial British pharmacopoeia – at a time when …
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires
Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618–1968
Häftad, 2024
510 kr
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The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College of Physicians of London considered a proposal to develop an imperial British pharmacopoeia – at a time when …
Drink and Democracy
Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia
Häftad, 2025
481 kr
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The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption and in celebratory public dinners with rounds of toasts. British colonists raised their glasses to salute the Crown in rituals that asserted fraternal equality and political …
Cities of Drugs
The Origins of Global Trafficking in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2026
430 kr
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Port cities from Marseille to Miami have long occupied a storied place in the popular imagination of global drug trafficking. Their advanced capitalist modernity made them fertile ground for illicit trade, with world-class shipping infrastructures, intricate transport and labour systems, …
Taming Cannabis
Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2020
1615 kr
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Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisingly, France was once the epicentre of a global movement to medicalize cannabis, specifically hashish, in the treatment of disease. In …
Cigarette Nation
Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930-1975
Inbunden, 2021
1729 kr
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In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and 1970s. In Cigarette Nation, Daniel Robinson …
