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- catalog abstract "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 diminish pain, fight disease, and correct behaviour. It shows that the major substances so used, from herbs of the field to laboratory-produced synthetic medicines, have a healing potential, and have been widely employed both within and outside the medical profession.".
- catalog contributor b7508270.
- catalog contributor b7508271.
- catalog contributor b7508272.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "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 century / Andreas-Holger Maehle -- 4. The regulation of the supply of drugs in Britain before 1868 / S.W.F. Holloway -- 5. Das Kaiserliche Gesundheitsamt (Imperial Health Office) and the chemical industry in Germany during the Second Empire: partners or adversaries? / Erika Hickel -- 6. From all purpose anodyne to marker of deviance: physicians' attitudes towards opiates in the US from 1890 to 1940 / Caroline Jean Acker -- 7. Changes in alcohol use among Navajos and other Indians of the American Southwest / Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy -- 8. The drug habit: the association of the word 'drug' with abuse in American history / John Parascandola.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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 diminish pain, fight disease, and correct behaviour. It shows that the major substances so used, from herbs of the field to laboratory-produced synthetic medicines, have a healing potential, and have been widely employed both within and outside the medical profession.".
- catalog extent "xii, 227 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521431638 (hardback)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "615/.1/09 20".
- catalog subject "Drug Industry history.".
- catalog subject "Drug and Narcotic Control history.".
- catalog subject "Drugs History.".
- catalog subject "Narcotics history.".
- catalog subject "Pharmaceutical Preparations history.".
- catalog subject "Pharmacology History.".
- catalog subject "QV 11.1 D794 1994".
- catalog subject "RM301 .D789 1994".
- catalog subject "Substance-Related Disorders history.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 century / Andreas-Holger Maehle -- 4. The regulation of the supply of drugs in Britain before 1868 / S.W.F. Holloway -- 5. Das Kaiserliche Gesundheitsamt (Imperial Health Office) and the chemical industry in Germany during the Second Empire: partners or adversaries? / Erika Hickel -- 6. From all purpose anodyne to marker of deviance: physicians' attitudes towards opiates in the US from 1890 to 1940 / Caroline Jean Acker -- 7. Changes in alcohol use among Navajos and other Indians of the American Southwest / Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy -- 8. The drug habit: the association of the word 'drug' with abuse in American history / John Parascandola.".
- catalog title "Drugs and narcotics in history / edited by Roy Porter and Mikulás Teich.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".