When Good Drugs Go Bad

Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws

Dan Malleck (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2016
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-2920-5 (ISBN)

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This intoxicating look at the history of drug regulation in Canada reveals how a variety of social and political forces converged at the turn of the twentieth century to transform both public attitudes toward, and access to, narcotics.

Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. How did this happen? Dan Malleck examines the conditions that led to Canada’s current drug laws. Drawing on newspaper accounts, medical and pharmacy journals, professional association files, asylum documents, physicians’ case books, and pharmacy records, Malleck demonstrates how a number of social, economic, and cultural forces converged in the early 1900s to influence lawmakers and criminalize addiction. His research exposes how social concerns about drug addiction had less to do with the long pipe and shadowy den than with lobbying by medical professionals, a growing pharmaceutical industry, and concern about the morality and future of the nation.

Dan Malleck researches and teaches the history of medicine, alcohol policy, drug regulation, and health professions in the department of Health Sciences at Brock University. He is the author of Try To Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, which won the Canadian Historical Association’s Clio Award for best book in Ontario history for 2012. He is also the co-editor of Consuming Modernity: Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism Before the Baby Boom; the editor-in-chief of Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: an interdisciplinary journal; and series editor for the Histories of Substance series at UBC Press.

Introduction: Its Baneful Influences

1 Medicating Canada before Regulation

2 Opium in Nineteenth-Century Medical Knowledge

3 Canada’s First Drug Laws

4 Chinese Opium Smoking and Threats to the Nation

5 Medicine, Addiction, and Ideas of Nation

6 Madness and Addiction in the Asylums of English Canada

7 Proprietary Medicines and the Nation’s Health

8 Regulating Proprietary Medicine

9 Drug Laws and the Creation of Illegality

Conclusion: Baneful Influences

Notes; Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.02.2016
Zusatzinfo	10 tables
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7748-2920-6 / 0774829206
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-2920-5 / 9780774829205
Zustand	Neuware