Markets of Pain : Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siegel, Benjamin Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opium trade--History.

Opium trade.

Opium--Economic aspects--History.

Opium.

Analgesics--Economic aspects--History.

Analgesics.

Analgesics industry--History.

Analgesics industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Markets of Pain offers an account of the global drug trade in the twentieth century, focusing on the transformation of opium from a colonial commodity into a modern resource for the American and European pharmaceutical industries. Challenging simplistic ideas of licit and illicit drugs in the twentieth century, it reveals how the modern global drug regime was formed by India and Turkey's navigation of the international anti-opium movement, the rise of the pharmaceutical industry, and the complex relationship between agriculture, medicine, and global capitalism.

Contents:

Introduction: Opium Wars

A Trade Which Is Presumably Remunerative

No Crop in Anatolia Is as Important as Opium

The Problem of Distance

Bureaucratizing Opium

Mr. Nargolwala Goes to Mallinckrodt

Import Substitution Pharmaceuticals

Opium's Last Stand

The Ghost Ship

Epilogue: Opium Crises.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-752784-1

0-19-752783-3

9780197527832

OCLC:

1565475383