The Making of Addiction: The 'use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Louise Foxcroft

The Making of Addiction: The 'use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain

History of Medicine in Context

Louise Foxcroft

208 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history
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What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the pas...

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