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Title DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND ADDICTION IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY Volume III, Efforts to Control, Restrict, and Prohibit: Alcohol / edited by Dan Malleck
Published [Place of publication not identified] ROUTLEDGE, 2020

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Summary This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world. Focusing on the long nineteenth-century, the volumes consider how scientific, social, and cultural experiences with drugs, alcohol, addiction, gambling, and prostitution varied around the world. What might be considered vice, or addiction could be interpreted in various ways, through various lenses, and such activities were interpreted differently depending upon the observer: the medical practitioner; the evangelical missionary; the thrill seeking bon-vivant, and the concerned government commissioner, to name but a few. For example, opium addiction in middle class households resulting from medical treatment was judged much differently than Chinese opium smoking by those in poverty or poor living conditions in North American work camps on the west coast, or on the streets of Soho. This collection will assemble key documents representing both the official and general view of these various activities, providing readers with a cross section of interpretations and a solid grounding in the material that shaped policy change, cultural interpretation, and social action
Notes Daniel Malleck is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences, Brock University, Canada
Subject Alcoholism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Drug addiction -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Drug abuse -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Substance abuse -- United States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century.
Alcoholism
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Substance abuse
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Malleck, Dan, 1968-
ISBN 9780429789892
0429789890
9780429436086
0429436084
9780429789885
0429789882
9780429789908
0429789904
Other Titles Efforts to Control, Restrict, and Prohibit: Alcohol