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1 online resource |
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Critical interventions in the medical and health humanities |
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Critical interventions in the medical and health humanities.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Coca Leaves, Edward Weston, and the Victorian Origins of Sports Doping -- 2. Conquerors of Pain: Cocaine Anaesthesia and the Ideal Medical Man -- 3.Brutal Fashions: Cosmetic Surgery and Tattooing at the Fin-de-Siècle -- 4. Cocaine Bugs and the Horrors of Addiction -- 5. Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine in Canon and Comedy: Profession, Pleasure, and the Zany -- 6. White Powder, White Fears: Race, Sex, and Masculinity in the Jazz Age -- Conclusion -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization. Examining the paradoxical position of cocaine in this period by looking at its role as an icon of technology, modernity and idealised medical identity, alongside developing notions of habituation and dependence, this book reads texts such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as work by Arthur Machen, W.C Morrow and Aleister Crowley. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily |
| Subject |
Cocaine abuse in literature -- 19th century
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Cocaine abuse in literature -- 20th century
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Drugs in literature.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Cocaine abuse in literature
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Drugs in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781350400122 |
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1350400122 |
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9781350400108 |
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1350400106 |
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9781350400115 |
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1350400114 |
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