ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
volume Volume II|521 pages
Healers Discovering and Treating Addiction
part 1|51 pages
Is the Opium Habit a Problem?
part 2|29 pages
The Growing Problem of Iatrogenic Morphine
part 3|11 pages
Cocaine
part 4|34 pages
Cocaine a Menace
part 5|13 pages
Heroin, No Great Solution
part 6|118 pages
Considering Drink, Inebriety and Cure
part 7|20 pages
Hypodermic Drug Use
part 8|47 pages
The Role of Professionals in the Growth of Addiction
part 9|61 pages
Treating the Habitue/Inebriate/Addict
part 10|27 pages
Proprietary Medicines as Causes and Cures of Addiction
part 11|73 pages
Institutionalization