Opium
By: Museum der Kulturen Basel (ed.) ; editorial: Anna Schmid, Doris Buddenberg ; translations: Nigel Stephenson and Kristina Mundall
Publisher: Christoph Merian Verlag
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9783856166748
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Opium abuse; Exhibitions; Opium trade; Opium; History
Work titles: Opium (Christoph Merian Verlag) English
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Museum der Kulturen Basel, March 20, 2015-January 24, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Anna Schmid; title: The opium phenomenon: an introduction / Doris Buddenberg, Anna Schmid; title: Drom the poppy plant to raw opium / Doris Buddenberg; title: From the first crumbs of opium to contemporary poppy cultivation: a chronology / compiled by Doris Buddenberg; title: A history of opium from the 17th to the 21st centuries / Alfred W. McCoy; title: A short history and critique of drug prohibition in the 20th century / Jakob Tanner; title: "The history of opium is also the history of medicien": opium in medicine, chemistry and pharmacy / Michael Kessler; title: Opium, opiates and advances in neuroscience / Barbara Remberg & Kalman Szendrei; title: Olfactory characteristics of opium: the first analysis / Barbara Remberg; title: Opium smoking: the needle, the lamp, the pipe / Steven Martin; title: "It is always a woman who introduces the opium poppy to mankind": myths of origin / Doris Buddenberg; title: Opium and the orient: the alien within us / Barry Milligan; title: Opium in the Wakeful Night / Doris Buddenberg; title: Intensification: the categories of time, space, colour under opium / Doris Buddenberg; title: Seduction and deterrence / Doris Buddenberg; title: Opium: the waking of the forces of a different memory / Friederike Kretzen; title: Bibliography; title: Object index; title: Contributors; title: Imprint.