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| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine | 4 |
| 2 | Exotic substances: the introduction and global spread of tobacco, coffee, cocoa, tea, and distilled liquor, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries | 24 |
| 3 | Pharmacological experimentation with opium in the eighteenth century | 52 |
| 4 | The regulation of the supply of drugs in Britain before 1868 | 77 |
| 5 | Das Kaiserliche Gesundheitsamt (Imperial Health Office) and the chemical industry in Germany during the Second Empire: partners or adversaries? | 97 |
| 6 | From all purpose anodyne to marker of deviance: physicians' attitudes towards opiates in the US from 1890 to 1940 | 114 |
| 7 | Changes in alcohol use among Navajos and other Indians of the American Southwest | 133 |
| 8 | The drug habit: the association of the word 'drug' with abuse in American history | 156 |
| 9 | Research and development in the UK pharmaceutical industry from the nineteenth century to the 1960s | 168 |
| 10 | AIDS, drugs, and history | 187 |
| 11 | Anomalies and mysteries in the 'War on Drugs' | 199 |
| Glossary | 216 | |
| Index | 217 |
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Ark Verer
reviewed Drugs and Narcotics in History on February 14, 2021
Drugs and Narcotics in History
An elegantly written book that is incredibly relevant even though it was only published in 1993! The book first starts out why new viruses emerge and provides case studies of AIDS (which has yet to be eradicated in 1993). We see the work of policy as well, with figures like Anthony Fauci making critical contributions to AIDS even before the coronavirus pandemic. We learn about contemporary viruses that have shaped our current world, including arboviruses and new flus. The arbovirus was very interesting considering it was written before the West Nile outbreak. I appreciated how the book seemed to touch at many facets of virology, including whether or not the viruses could cause chronic diseases (see page 247). Finally, the book closes in an incredibly interesting consideration of future pandemics. I think that overall the book balanced scientific writing for the layman audience, but leaned towards people with more background in STEM as it could be perceived as "dry" to a layman.
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