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Titel och upphov Forces of habit : drugs and the making of the modern world
Utgivning, distribution etc. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass : 2001
Fysisk beskrivning
Anmärkning: Innehållsbeskrivning, sammanfattning The book's first section describes the confluence of the world's principal psychoactive resources, concentrating on alcoholic and caffeinated ages, tobacco, opiates, cannabis, coca, cocaine, and sugar - the last a key ingredient in many drug products. The second section, on drugs and commerce, deals with psychoactive substances as medical and recreational products. Drugs typically began their careers as expensive and rarefied medicines, touted for a variety of human an animal ailments. The third section, which concerns drugs and power, shows how psychoactive trade benefited mercantile and imperial elites in ways that went beyond ordinary commercial profits. (From the introduction)
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*1001 $aCourtwright, David T.
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*260 $aCambridge, Mass :$bHarvard University Press,$c2001$y2001
*300 $a277 s :$bill.
*520 $aThe book's first section describes the confluence of the world's principal psychoactive resources, concentrating on alcoholic and caffeinated ages, tobacco, opiates, cannabis, coca, cocaine, and sugar - the last a key ingredient in many drug products. The second section, on drugs and commerce, deals with psychoactive substances as medical and recreational products. Drugs typically began their careers as expensive and rarefied medicines, touted for a variety of human an animal ailments. The third section, which concerns drugs and power, shows how psychoactive trade benefited mercantile and imperial elites in ways that went beyond ordinary commercial profits. (From the introduction)
*650 4$aSubstance-related disorders
*650 4$aHistory
*650 4$aCommerce
*653 $aDrogmissbruk
*653 $aHistoria
*653 $aHandel
*653 $aDroger
*653 $aDrogpolitik
*653 $aAlkohol
*653 $aTobak
*653 $aKoffein
*653 $aOpium
*653 $aCannabis
*653 $aKokain
*852 $h8b175
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