| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : its baneful influences -- 1. Medicating Canada before regulation -- 2. Opium in nineteenth-century medical knowledge -- 3. Canada's first drug laws -- 4. Chinese opium smoking and threats to the nation -- 5. Medicine, addiction, and ideas of nation -- 6. Madness and addiction in the asylums of English Canada -- 7. Proprietary medicines and the nation's health -- 8. Regulating proprietary medicine -- 9. Drug laws and the creation of illegality -- Conclusion : baneful influences |
| Summary |
"Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. How did this happen? In this intoxicating history, Dan Malleck examines the conditions that lead to Canada's current drug laws. Drawing on newspaper accounts, medical and pharmacy journals, professional association records, asylum records, physician case books, and pharmacy records, Malleck demonstrates how a number of social, economic, and cultural forces converged in the early 1900s to influence lawmakers and criminalize addiction. His research exposes how social concerns about drug addiction had less to do with the long pipe and shadowy den than with lobbying by medical professionals, concern about the morality and future of the nation, and a growing pharmaceutical industry."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 13, 2016) |
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Narcotic laws -- Canada -- History
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Opium abuse -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History
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Drugs -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History
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Drug addiction -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History
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Drug addiction -- Economic aspects -- Canada -- History
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Drug control -- Canada -- History
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Medicine -- Canada -- History
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Drug abuse -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Drug addiction -- Economic aspects
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Drug addiction -- Social aspects
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Drug control
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Drugs -- Law and legislation
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Medicine
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Narcotic laws
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Opium abuse -- Law and legislation
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780774829212 |
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0774829214 |
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9780774829229 |
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0774829222 |
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