Pleasure and Panic : New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs / Dan Malleck and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malleck, Dan, 1968- author.

Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drugs of abuse.

Harm reduction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2022]

Summary:

Pleasure and Panic illustrates how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption are complicated by the politics, economics, and culture of their times.

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.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Malleck, Dan Pleasure and Panic

ISBN:

0-7748-6753-1