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Black, Sara E.
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Psychotropic drugs -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Psychopharmacology -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Drugs of abuse -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Narcotics -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Black, Sara E.
Psychotropic drugs -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Psychopharmacology -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Drugs of abuse -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Narcotics -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Drugging
France
: mind-altering medicine in the long nineteenth
century
/ Sara E. Black.
by
Black, Sara E.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Call #:
615.7880944 B627d
Subjects
Psychotropic drugs
--
France
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Psychopharmacology
--
France
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Drugs of abuse
--
France
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Narcotics
--
France
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Series
Intoxicating histories ; 5.
ISBN:
9780228011644 (pbk)
9780228011439 (hc)
Description:
389 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In the nineteenth
century
, drug consumption permeated French society to produce a new norm: the chemical enhancement of modern life. French citizens empowered themselves by seeking pharmaceutical relief for their suffering and engaging in self-medication. Doctors and pharmacists, meanwhile, fashioned themselves as gatekeepers to these potent drugs, claiming that their expertise could shield the public from accidental harm. Despite these efforts, the unanticipated phenomenon of addiction laid bare both the embodied nature of the modern self and the inherent instability of the notions of individual free will and responsibility. Drugging
France
explores the
history
of mind-altering drugs in medical practice between 1840 and 1920, highlighting the intricate medical histories of opium, morphine, ether, chloroform, cocaine, and hashish. While most drug histories focus on how drugs became regulated and criminalized as dangerous addictive substances, Sara Black instead traces the spread of these drugs through French society, demonstrating how new therapeutic norms and practices of drug consumption transformed the lives of French citizens as they came to expect and even demand pharmaceutical solutions to their pain. Through self-experimentation, doctors developed new knowledge about these drugs, transforming exotic botanical substances and unpredictable chemicals into reliable pharmaceutical commodities that would act on the mind and body to modify pain, sensation, and consciousness. From the pharmacy counter to the boudoir, from the courtroom to the operating theater, from the battlefield to the birthing chamber, Drugging
France
explores how everyday encounters with drugs reconfigured how people experienced their own minds and bodies."--Publisher.
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