Title Drugging France : mind-altering medicine in the long nineteenth century / Sara E. Black

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource Series Intoxicating histories ; 5 Intoxicating histories ; 5. Contents Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals -- Self-Experimentation -- Drugging the Mind -- Sex and Drugs -- Economies of Pain Summary "In the nineteenth century, drug consumption permeated French society to produce a new norm: the chemical enhancement of modern life. French citizens empowered themselves by seeking pharmaceutical relief for their suffering and engaging in self-medication. Doctors and pharmacists, meanwhile, fashioned themselves as gatekeepers to these potent drugs, claiming that their expertise could shield the public from accidental harm. Despite these efforts, the unanticipated phenomenon of addiction laid bare both the embodied nature of the modern self and the inherent instability of the notions of individual free will and responsibility. Drugging France explores the history of mind-altering drugs in medical practice between 1840 and 1920, highlighting the intricate medical histories of opium, morphine, ether, chloroform, cocaine, and hashish. While most drug histories focus on how drugs became regulated and criminalized as dangerous addictive substances, Sara Black instead traces the spread of these drugs through French society, demonstrating how new therapeutic norms and practices of drug consumption transformed the lives of French citizens as they came to expect and even demand pharmaceutical solutions to their pain. Through self-experimentation, doctors developed new knowledge about these drugs, transforming exotic botanical substances and unpredictable chemicals into reliable pharmaceutical commodities that would act on the mind and body to modify pain, sensation, and consciousness. From the pharmacy counter to the boudoir, from the courtroom to the operating theater, from the battlefield to the birthing chamber, Drugging France explores how everyday encounters with drugs reconfigured how people experienced their own minds and bodies."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Belle Epoque French Second Empire Third Republic World War One anesthesia asylum battlefield body cannabis childbirth chloroform commodity consumption criminal doctor drugs ether fin de siecle free will gender hashish knowledge law legal madness medical medication mental patient mind modern morphine mother normalization opium pain pharmaceutical pharmacist pleasure psychiatric psychoactive psychotropic science self experimentation sex soldier surgery women Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Psychotropic drugs -- France -- History -- 19th century Psychopharmacology -- France -- History -- 19th century Drugs of abuse -- France -- History -- 19th century Narcotics -- France -- History -- 19th century Psychotropic Drugs -- history Psychopharmacology -- history Narcotics -- history History, 19th Century HISTORY / Europe / France Drugs of abuse Narcotics Psychopharmacology Psychotropic drugs SUBJECT France https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005602 Subject France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0228012511 9780228012528 022801252X 9780228012511

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