Cocaine

From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920

Autor: Joseph F. Spillane

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Johns Hopkins University Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství

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In 1884 American physicians discovered the anesthetic value of cocaine, and over the next three deca...

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Autor

Joseph F. Spillane

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2002

Stránek

240

EAN

9780801871160

ISBN

0801871166

Enbook ID

04709236

Vydavatel

Johns Hopkins University Press

Hmotnost

386

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 13

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In 1884 American physicians discovered the anesthetic value of cocaine, and over the next three decades this substance derived from the coca plant became so popular that it became, ironically, a public health problem. Demand exceeded supply; abuse proliferated. The black market produced a legendary underground of "cocaine fiends." As attempts at regulation failed, Congress in 1914 banned cocaine outright, and America launched its longstanding war against now-illegal drugs. Challenging "traditional thinking about both the 'rise' and 'fall' of drug problems" (which makes legal prohibition the pivotal point in the story), Spillane examines phenomena that have eluded earlier students of drug history. He explores the role of American business in fostering consumer interest in cocaine during the years when no law proscribed its use, the ways in which authorities and social agents tried nonetheless to establish informal controls on the substance, and the mixed results they achieved. In asking how this pain-allaying drug became recognizably dangerous, how reformers tried to ameliorate its social effects, and how an underground of cocaine abusers developed even before regulation of the drug industry as a whole, Spillane discovers contingency, complication, and mixed motives. Arguing that the underground drug culture had origins other than in federal prohibition can tell us as we face questions about drug policy today.

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