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The Making of Addiction

The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Louise Foxcroft

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The Making of Addiction

The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Louise Foxcroft

What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the past. This book uncovers the original influences that shaped the creation and the various interpretations of addiction as a disease, and of addiction to opiates in particular. It delves into the treatments, regimes, and prejudices that surrounded the condition, a newly emerging pathological entity and a form of 'moral insanity' during the nineteenth century. The source material for this book is rich and surprising. Letters and diaries provide the most moving material, detailing personal struggles with addiction and the trials of those who cared and despaired. Confessions of shame, deceit, misery and terror sit alongside those of deep sensual pleasure, visionary manifestations and blissful freedom from care. The reader can follow the lifelong opium careers of literary figures, artists and politicians, glimpse a raw underworld of hidden drug use, or see the bleakness of urban and rural poverty alleviated by daily doses of opium. Delving into diaries, letters and confessions this book exposes the medical case histories and the physician's mad, lazy, commercial, contemptuous, desperate, altruistic and frustrated attempts to deal with drug addiction. It demonstrates that many of the stigmatising prejudices arose from false 'facts' and semi-mythical beliefs and thus has significant implications, not only for the history of addiction, but also for how we view the condition today.

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Routledge

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1317024826

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Hot Flushes, Cold Science

A History Of The Modern Menopause

By: Louise Foxcroft

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A History Of The Modern Menopause

By: Louise Foxcroft

For over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, via the medical literature of the eighteenth century, to up-to-the-minute contemporary clinical approaches. Its progression from natural phenomenon to full-blown pathological condition from the 1700s led to bizarre treatments and often dangerous surgery, and formalized a misogyny which lingers in the treatment of menopausal women today. Louise Foxcroft delves into the archives, the boudoir and the Gladstone bag to reveal the elements that formed the menopause myth: chauvinism, collusion, trial, error and secrecy. She challenges us to rethink absurd assumptions that have persisted through history - that sex stops at the menopause, or that ageing should be feared. It redresses the myths and captures the truths about menopause.

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Granta Books

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1847086039

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Calories and Corsets

A history of dieting over two thousand years

By: Louise Foxcroft

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Calories and Corsets

A history of dieting over two thousand years

By: Louise Foxcroft

Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when and how much, ever since the Greeks and the Romans first pinched an inch. Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, Calories and Corsets tells the epic story of our complicated relationship with food, the fashions and fads of body shape, and how cultural beliefs and social norms have changed over time. Combining research from medical journals, letters, articles and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour (including one by an octogenarian Italian in the sixteenth century), Foxcroft reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body, from eating carbolic soap to chewing every morsel hundreds of times to a tasteless pulp. This unique and witty history exposes the myths and anxieties that drive today's multi-billion pound dieting industry - and offers a welcome perspective on how we can be healthy and happy in our bodies.

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Profile Books

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1847654584

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Hot Flushes, Cold Science

A History Of The Modern Menopause

By: Louise Foxcroft

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The Making of Addiction

The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Louise Foxcroft

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The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Transgressing the Bounds

Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

By: Louise A. Breen

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Transgressing the Bounds

Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

By: Louise A. Breen

This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan "Antinomian" controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in Puritan New England during the 17th century. Some issues discussed here include the existence of individualism in a society that valued conformity and the response of members of an inward-looking, localistic culture to those among them of a more "cosmopolitan" nature. Central to Breen's study is the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, an elite social club that attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent membership, and whose diversity contrasted with the social and religious ideals of the cultural majority.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195138007

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Early Virginia Families Along the James River

By: Louise Pledge Heath Foley

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Early Virginia Families Along the James River

By: Louise Pledge Heath Foley

Charles City County - Prince George County, Virginia

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080630877X

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Rethinking the BSE Crisis

A Study of Scientific Reasoning under Uncertainty

By: Louise Cummings

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Rethinking the BSE Crisis

A Study of Scientific Reasoning under Uncertainty

By: Louise Cummings

In 1986, the emergence of a novel brain disease in British cattle presented a unique challenge to scientists. How that challenge was addressed has been the subject of a public inquiry and numerous academic studies conducted to date. However, none of these investigations has sought to examine the reasoning of scientists during this critical period in the public health of the UK. Using concepts and techniques in informal logic, argumentation and fallacy theory, this study reconstructs and evaluates the reasoning of scientists in the ten-year period between 1986 and 1996. Specifically, a form of presumptive reasoning is described in which extensive use is made of arguments traditionally identified as informal fallacies. In the context of the adverse epistemic conditions that confronted scientists during the BSE epidemic, these arguments were anything but fallacious, serving instead to confer a number of epistemic gains upon scientific inquiry. This book argues for a closer integration of philosophy with public health science, an integration that is exemplified by the case of scientific reasoning during the BSE affair. It will therefore be of interest to advanced students, academics, researchers and professionals in the areas of public health science and epidemiology, as well as philosophical disciplines such as informal logic, argumentation and fallacy theory and epistemology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9048195047

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Calories and Corsets

A history of dieting over two thousand years

By: Louise Foxcroft

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Gayer-Anderson

The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha

By: Louise Foxcroft

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Gayer-Anderson

The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha

By: Louise Foxcroft

Based on the personal journals of Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson (1881-1945), Egyptologist, poet, surgeon, soldier, psychic, and noted collector, this candid and charming historical biography tells of Gayer-Anderson's strange and eclectic life in the final days of the British empire. As a child, he crossed an unforgiving America with his entrepreneurial and eccentric Irish parents. As a man, he immersed himself in the Arab way of life as colonials seldom did; he saw ghosts and witches, sailed the Nile, wrestled Turks and crocodiles, fought at Gallipoli, smoked opium, performed surgery in the desert, gathered and cared for artefacts and boys in his Cairene home, survived an assassination attempt and, in the name of science and Henry Wellcome, in flowery glades he boiled the flesh from the skulls of Nuba warriors. His personal journals are filled with frank accounts of his exploits and of the illustrious and colorful people who wandered by: Lawrence of Arabia, Gordon, Kitchener, Conan-Doyle, Eric Gill, and Stephen Spender, among others. Drugs, race, class, family, sex, and selfhood are vividly mixed in this tale of two wars, colonial life, medicine, anthropology, and psychic phenomena. The stiff-upper-lipped ritual of a very British upbringing vied with his Romantic and consuming love of beauty, vividly embodied in the Gayer-Anderson Museum in Cairo, which to this day houses his vast collection of carpets, furniture, glassware, and other curios.

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Book's by Louise Foxcroft

The Making of Addiction

The Making of Addiction

Hot Flushes, Cold Science

Hot Flushes, Cold Science

Calories and Corsets

Calories and Corsets

Hot Flushes, Cold Science

Hot Flushes, Cold Science

The Making of Addiction

The Making of Addiction

Transgressing the Bounds

Transgressing the Bounds

Early Virginia Families Along the James River

Early Virginia Families Along the James River

Rethinking the BSE Crisis

Rethinking the BSE Crisis

Calories and Corsets

Calories and Corsets

Gayer-Anderson

Gayer-Anderson

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