Opium and the People - Revised Edition: Opiate Use and Policy in 19th and Early 20th Century Britain (Revised Edition) Tapa dura -

London : Free Association, 1999. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.  Provenance; from the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with their presentation bookplate and being presented by the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund. Edition; Rev. ed. Physical description; xxxiii, 419 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; Previous ed.: London: Allen Lane, 1981. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; At the beginning of the 19th century, opium was widely used as an everyday remedy for common ailments. By the 1920s, it was classified as a ""dangerous drug"". In an examination of the social context of drug taking in Victorian England, the book explains this decisive change in attitude. This revised edition examines how and why restrictive policies were put in place in the early decades of the 20th… Leer más

Free Association Books, 1999, revised edition. Published without dust jacket, in near pristine condition, very small red pen mark on front end paper.

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