The secret leprosy of modern days : narcotic addiction and cultural crisis in the United States, 1870-1920 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hickman, Timothy Alton
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Narcotic laws > United States > History. Drug control > United States > History. Drug addiction > United States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the modernity of addiction/the addiction of modernity
Opium eating and political subjectivity before 1870
Narcotic addiction : "the secret leprosy of modern days"
Subjects of desire : race, gender and the personification of addiction
Legislating professional authority : the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914
The saved and the damned : the medicolegal solution to the double meaning of addiction.