Historique
Livre
Creating the American junkie. Addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control
(La création du junkie américain. Recherche sur l'addiction à l'époque classique du contrôle des narcotiques)
Auteur(s) :
ACKER, C. J.
Année
2002
Page(s) :
276 p.
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Éditeur(s) :
Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN :
978-0-8018-6798-9
Refs biblio. :
435
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Thésaurus mots-clés
HEROINE
;
DEPENDANCE
;
MATERIEL D'INJECTION
;
RECHERCHE
;
ANALGESIQUES
;
POTENTIEL ADDICTIF
;
TRAJECTOIRE
;
PSYCHOPATHIE
;
GUERISON
;
SOCIAL
;
TOXICOMANE
;
HISTOIRE
Résumé :
"The question left by this well-written and thoughtful book is this : How significant was the change in attitude toward addicts after 1890 in imposing a negative image on them ? Undoubtedly, addicts fell in public esteem, but their image had never been very high. For example, Dr. William Osler, in his great book The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), warned that "persons addicted to morphia are inveterate liars, and no reliance whatever can be placed upon their statements." (One wonders what one of his addicted patients, Dr. William Stewart Halsted, thought when reading that sentence.) Or take an even earlier response to addicts, this by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., speaking to the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1860 : "A frightful endemic demoralization betrays itself in the frequency with which the haggard features and drooping shoulders of the opium-drunkards are met with in the streets." These expressions far antedated the federal attack on drug use. Acker presents a fascinating account of how addicts' negative image came to dominate public and official perceptions, as well as how it forced some users into that mold. Her careful analysis of research findings will make this book of interest to historians, drug-abuse workers, and anyone else who wants to examine the origins of American drug policy." (Extract from critics by D. Musto).
Affiliation :
Dept History, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, USA