The Making of Addiction
Subtitle: The 'use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-century Britain (The History of Medicine in Context) (The History of Medicine in Context)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: January 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780754656333
Subjects: Drug addiction & substance abuse; History of medicine; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Medical; Medical / Nursing; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Pharmacology; 19th century; Great Britain; History; Opioid-Related Disorders; Opium; Opium abuse; Therapeutic use
Description: A social and intellectual history of the concept of addiction, concentrating on the use and abuse of opiates. The book looks at public and personal perceptions of chronic opiate use in the nineteenth century and at the development of addiction as a medical condition, a disease entity, where no such definition had previously existed.