This collection of essays explores the complex and contested histories of drugs and narcotics in societies from ancient Greece to the present day. The Greek term pharmakon means both medicament and poison. The book shows how this verbal ambivalence encapsulates the ambiguity of man's use of chemically-active substances over the centuries to diminish pain, fight disease, and correct behaviour. It shows that the major substances so used, from herbs of the field to laboratory-produced synthetic medicines, have a healing ...
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This collection of essays explores the complex and contested histories of drugs and narcotics in societies from ancient Greece to the present day. The Greek term pharmakon means both medicament and poison. The book shows how this verbal ambivalence encapsulates the ambiguity of man's use of chemically-active substances over the centuries to diminish pain, fight disease, and correct behaviour. It shows that the major substances so used, from herbs of the field to laboratory-produced synthetic medicines, have a healing potential, and have been widely employed both within and outside the medical profession. The boundary lines between use and abuse in society have been powerfully contested, while 'alternative' medicine has often sought to develop milder, purer, or more natural drugs. Clearly, these issues remain unresolved today: some highly addictive and dangerous substances such as cigarettes remain freely available, others are available only on prescription, while others are illegal and the objects of international contraband trade and the targets of 'drugs wars'.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Light dust soiling to top edge. Small, closed tear at top left edge on front of dust jacket. From the library of Prof. John Scarborough, School of Pharmacy and Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with his name stamp and date on front flyleaf.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket., one tiny closed tear to dj, carefully repaired with archival book tape. no other flaws., 227pp., 11 essays/articles by 12 contributors., ann dally, virginia berridge, john parascandola, among others, contribute highly interesting papers on opium, tobacco, alcohol, etc. and the various roles that we've assigned them to play in an increasingly dark drama.
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