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The secret leprosy of modern days narcotic addiction and cultural crisis in the United States, 1870-1920
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Title
The secret leprosy of modern days [electronic resource] : narcotic addiction and cultural crisis in the United States, 1870-1920 / Timothy A. Hickman.
ISBN
1613761074
9781613761076
1558495657 (library cloth : alk. paper)
1558495665 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558495654 (library cloth : alk. paper)
9781558495661 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 190 p. :) ill. ;
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 History Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-178) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the modernity of addiction/the addiction of modernity
Opium eating and political subjectivity before 1870
Narcotic addiction : "the secret leprosy of modern days"
Subjects of desire : race, gender and the personification of addiction
Legislating professional authority : the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914
The saved and the damned : the medicolegal solution to the double meaning of addiction.
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