Drugs and narcotics in history

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Drugs and narcotics in history : ed. by Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Porter, Roy (Editor), Teich, Mikulas (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	German
Published:	Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996
Subjects:	Rauschgift Geschichte Aufsatzsammlung
Contents/pieces:	11 records

1. The regulation of the supply of drugs in Britain before 1868

2. From all purpose anodyne to marker of deviance : physician's attitudes towards opiates in the US from 1890 to 1940

3. Research and development in the UK pharmaceutical industry from the nineteenth century to the 1960s

4. The drug habit : the association of the word "drug" with abuse in American history

5. Das Kaiserliche Gesundheitsamt (Imperial Health Office) and the chemical industry in Germany during the Second Empire : partners or adversaries?

6. AIDS, drugs, and history

7. Changes in alcohol use among Navajos and other Indians of the American Southwest

8. Anomalies and mysteries in the "War on Drugs"

9. Pharmacological experimentation with opium in the eighteenth century

10. Exotic substances : the introduction and global spread of tobacco, coffee, cocoa, tea, and distilled liquor, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

11. The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine