Opium slavery : Civil War veterans and America's first opioid crisis / Jonathan S. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Jonathan S. (Historian), Author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Civil War America (Series) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/83d166b4-c637-47ab-4d1c-4fd7b4e9f991

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opium abuse--United States--History--19th century.

Opium abuse.

Morphine abuse--United States--History--19th century.

Morphine abuse.

Opioid abuse--United States--History--19th century.

Opioid abuse.

Drug abuse--Treatment--United States--History--19th century.

Drug abuse.

Drug abuse--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Drug use.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2025]

Contents:

The magnum Dei donum of the Materia Medica: the rise of opiates in antebellum American medicine

So dreadful an evil: the cultural construction of opiate addiction in antebellum America

The Drs. put me on morphine: Civil War medicine and opiate addiction

Opium slavery: veterans and the experience of addiction

Opium mania: addiction as mental illness

Vicious habits: opiate-addiction and military entitlements

Buying and selling the cure: veterans and patent medicine remedies for opiate addiction

The revolt against opium: physicians react to mass addiction

The Army disease: remembering addicted veterans in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jones, Jonathan S. (Historian). Opium slavery.

ISBN:

9781469689555

1469689553

9781469689562

1469689561

Publisher Number:

40033007639

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.