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Pleasure and Panic : New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs.
Title:
Pleasure and Panic : New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs.
Author:
Malleck, Dan.
ISBN:
9780774867535
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Problems with Pleasures -- Part 1: Popular Pleasure and Panic -- 1 The Transgressive Woman: Gender, Class, Alcohol, and Drugs in Canada from 1850 -- 2 "To Find Out the Best Men and to Try to Get Them In": Women, Temperance, and Politics in Manchester, 1873-1919 -- 3 Youth, Drugs, and Surveillance at Manseau's Woodstock Pop Festival -- 4 John Lennon, the Le Dain Commission, and the Rise of the Celebrity Activist -- Part 2: Medicinal Pleasure and Panic -- 5 Manhood, Drink, and the "Medical Heresy" of US Army Surgeon James Mann (1812-16) -- 6 Medicinal Purposes: Pharmacists, Professionalism, and Liquor Laws in Victorian Ontario -- 7 A New Perspective on Harm Reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD Rescue Service -- Part 3: The Business of Pleasure and Panic -- 8 Flogging a Dead Horse? Adulteration and Brewing in Nineteenth-Century England -- 9 Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The Story of the First Chinese-Canadian Hotel Licensee in Post-Prohibition Alberta -- 10 The Rise of the "Big Three": The Emergence of a Canadian Brewing Oligopoly, 1945-62 -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Pleasure and Panic illustrates how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption are complicated by the politics, economics, and culture of their times.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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