Dark Paradise: Opiate Addiction in America Before 1940 - Hardcover

Courtwright, David T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674192613 ISBN 13: 9780674192614

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1982

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Book by Courtwright David T

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In this eye-opening book, David Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction. Once observed primarily among upper- and middle-class matrons, addiction came to be concentrated among young, lower-class urban males, often with a delinquent or criminal record. He challenges the view that the shift resulted simply from new laws such as the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914, and shows that a crucial role was played by the medical rather than the legal profession. Courtwright's blending of medical and scientific literature with newspaper accounts, oral histories, and personal documents results in a striking exegesis of attitudes and practices still very much with us.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0674192613
• ISBN 13: 9780674192614
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288