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Summary:

"Tracing the moral and medical panics about addictive commodities that flourished after tobacco, chocolate, sugar, coffee, tea, and gin were introduced into Europe as a result of early modern colonial exploitation"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Stained with Spots of Human Blood : Disgust, Pleasure, and the Senses
• Chocolate, or an Indian Drink : The Cultural Geography of Drugs and Alcohol
• Who from Excess Is Free? Medicine and Addiction
• Do We Take Physick Every Day? Early Modern Wellness and Self-Medication
• And So the Game Goes Round : Women and Sociability
• Who Should Poison the People? The Ethics of Commerce
• Conclusion : An English Opium-Eater.

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Scott K., 1969- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ambivalent pleasures: soft drugs and embodied anxiety in early modern Europe [by Taylor, S.K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Ambivalent pleasures [by Taylor, S.K.] (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024 — ISBN 9781501775468; LCCN 2023058422)

Subjects:

Substance abuse — Social aspects — Europe — History

Substance abuse — Europe — History — 17th century

Substance abuse — Europe — History — 18th century

Psychotropic drugs — Social aspects — Europe — History

Psychotropic drugs — Europe — History — 17th century

Psychotropic drugs — Europe — History — 18th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 29, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

HV5000.E85 T395 2024

ISBNs:

9781501775482 (electronic book)
1501775480 (electronic book)
9781501775475 (electronic book)
1501775472 (electronic book)
9781501775468 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023058423

OCLC Numbers:

1419797512

Other Control Numbers:

3704310 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306539402