Ashes to ashes : the history of smoking and health : Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / edited by S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds, and E. M. Tansey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lock, Stephen, editor.

Reynolds, L. A., editor.

Tansey, E. M., editor.

Series:

Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.

The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tobacco use--Health aspects--Congresses.

Tobacco use.

Smoking--Health aspects--Congresses.

Smoking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Brill | Rodopi 1998

Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.

Summary:

Future historians will wonder why, despite the risks, society persisted in its warm relationship with the cigarette; by the end of the century global consumption was still rising. The 1995 symposium at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine not only examined tobacco's connection with health, but the varied attitudes towards smoking, which have included regarding it as ‘manly', relaxing, fashionable - and decadent. A particular feature was a witness seminar attended not only by those who had made the initial discovery but by those with a crucial role in promoting public awareness of the dangers. And, as shown in this book, we still cannot escape the paradox that, while a considerable proportion of a country's population is hooked on the cigarette, the tobacco industry and the government are equally addicted to the profits and tax revenues it generates.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Contributors / S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey

Introduction / Stephen Lock

Webs of Drug Dependence: Towards a Political History of Tobacco / Jordan Goodman

‘A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make’: Religion and Science in the British Anti-Tobacco Movement, 1853–1908 / Matthew Hilton and Simon Nightingale

The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting / David Harley

Tobacco and Victorian Literature / Hugh Cockerell

Pushing the Weed: The Editorializing and Advertising of Tobacco in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1880–1958 / Peter Bartrip

The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer / Richard Doll

Science and Policy: The Case of Postwar British Smoking Policy / Virginia Berridge

Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture / Allan M. Brandt

Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians / Christopher C. Booth

Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking / Francis Avery Jones

The Story of the Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians / Charles Fletcher

ASH: Witness on Smoking / David Simpson

Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize / John Crofton

Horace Joules’ Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking / Keith Ball

The History of the Norwegian Ban on Tobacco Advertising / Kjell Bjartveit

Concluding Remarks / Roy Porter

Index / S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-41855-5

OCLC:

753429012

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004418554 DOI