Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances in History, Culture and Theor - Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances

Informationen zum Autor Susannah Wilson is Associate Professor in French Studies the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on medical cultures of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. She is the author of Voices from the Asylum: Four French Women Writers, 1850-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2010). She held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 2011-2014 and currently holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a book project on the cultural history of morphine in France. Zusammenfassung Offering new critical reflections on the reasons prohibitions have historically arisen, the book analyses "prohibitions" as ambivalent and tenuous interactions between the users of psychoactive substances and regulators of their use.

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• Authors: Susannah Wilson
• Assisted by: Susannah Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780367257637
• ISBN: 978-0-367-25763-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Warwick Series in the Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects