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The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920
Timothy A. Hickman
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Paperback. Resituates the idea of addiction within its original late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century context. Through readings of a range of literary, medical, and legal texts, the author shows how Americans of that era conceptualized the dangers of drug addiction in terms of other preoccupations and fears. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.
Although the topic of habitual narcotic use first surfaced in the United States during the 1820s, it was not until after the Civil War that it became a subject of widespread public attention. Beginning in the 1870s, an increasingly urgent discussion of what some described as a national epidemic of ""drug addiction"" could be found in both medical journals and the popular press. Today, nearly a century and a halflater, the term is so commonplace we speak of people being ""addicted"" to just about anything. Yet, as Timothy A. Hickman argues in this revealing interdisciplinary study, the meaning of addiction ... Read more
Although the topic of habitual narcotic use first surfaced in the United States during the 1820s, it was not until after the Civil War that it became a subject of widespread public attention. Beginning in the 1870s, an increasingly urgent discussion of what some described as a national epidemic of ""drug addiction"" could be found in both medical journals and the popular press. Today, nearly a century and a halflater, the term is so commonplace we speak of people being ""addicted"" to just about anything. Yet, as Timothy A. Hickman argues in this revealing interdisciplinary study, the meaning of addiction ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495661
SKU
V9781558495661
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About Timothy A. Hickman
TIMOTHY A. HICKMAN is lecturer in history at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.
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