Verbreiteter Drogenkonsum gehört in das populäre und wissenschaftliche Bild der Weimarer Republik: Es heißt, in den 1920er Jahren habe eine 'Drogenwelle' Deutschland überrollt. Annika Hoffmann zeigt, wie sich zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts die Deutung des nicht-medizinischen Kon…
Dealing with literary works and films whose characteristics are linked to illicit global exchange, informal labor, violence, drug consumption, and ritualistic patterns of identity, this book argues for a new theoretical approach to better understand these "narratives of intoxica…
Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important moments in the development of lif…
"Beginning with opium, the "joy plant," which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic,…
Flesh of the gods: the ritual use of hallucinogens
Through a series of close, fascinating examinations of writing on drugs via, among others, Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline, and Burroughs on all of them, Writing on Drugs combines literary criticism with both socio-cultural history and pharmacological …
Research handbook on international drug policy
Prismatic Histories -- Electoral Dystopias -- The Dream of Benevolent Dictatorship -- Marcos, Duterte, and the Predicaments of Neoliberal Citizenship -- Motherland and the Biopolitics of Reproductive Health -- Duterte's Phallus: The Aesthetics of Vulgarity -- Duterte's Hobbesian…
El narcotráfico, problema pandémico en México y Colombia, está invadiendo también la literatura. Hasta ahora, la crítica se ha limitado mayoritariamente a cuestionar la tendencia sensacionalista y morbosa con la que las narcoficciones representan la realidad cotidiana y a polemi…
"The Cult of Pharmacology tells the dramatic story of how, as one legal drug after another fell from grace, new pharmaceutical substances took their place. Whether Valium or OxyContin at the pharmacy, cocaine or meth purchased on the street, or alcohol and tobacco from the corne…