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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Altering American consciousness. Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004 (OCoLC)651793872 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Caroline Jean Acker; Sarah W Tracy |
| ISBN: | 1558494243 9781558494244 1558494251 9781558494251 |
| OCLC Number: | 52471582 |
| Description: | vii, 414 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: psychoactive drugs--an American way of life / Sarah W. Tracy and Caroline Jean Acker -- pt. 1. Framing addiction and alcoholism. -- The lessons of language: historical perspectives on the rhetoric of addiction / William L. White -- How does the nation's "alcohol problem" change from era to era?: stalking the social logic of problem-definition transformations since repeal / Ron Roizen -- pt. 2. Alcohol and narcotics in the American context. -- "I was addicted to drinking rum": four centuries of alcohol consumption in Indian country / Peter C. Mancall -- Reforming drunkards in nineteenth-century America: religion, medicine, therapy / Katherine A. Chavigny -- Building a boozatorium: state medical reform for Iowa's inebriates, 1902-1920 / Sarah W. Tracy -- Portrait of an addicted family: dynamics of opiate addiction in the early twentieth century / Caroline Jean Acker -- The double meaning of addiction: habitual narcotic use and the logic of professionalizing medical authority in the United States, 1900-1920 / Timothy Hickman -- Demons for the twentieth century: the rhetoric of drug reform, 1920-1940 / Susan L. Speaker -- Maintaining orthodoxy: the depression-era struggle over morphine maintenance in California / Jim Baumohl -- "Lady Tipplers": gendering the modern alcoholism paradigm, 1933-1960 / Michelle McClellan -- Sober husbands and supportive wives: marital dramas of alcoholism in post-World War II America / Lori E. Rotskoff -- pt. 3. Psychotropics, psychedelics, and cigarettes. -- No one listened to imipramine / Nicholas Weiss -- LSD before Leary: Sidney Cohen's critique of 1950s psychedelic drug research / Steven J. Novak -- From nicotine to nicotrol: addiction, cigarettes, and American culture / Allan M. Brandt. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Sarah W. Tracy and Caroline Jean Acker. |
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