A History of Drugs: Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age

by Toby Seddon

Book Overview

Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as 'dangerous drugs', to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others - from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call 'medicines' - are seen and regulated very differently? A History of Drugs traces a genealogy of the construction and governance of the 'drug problem' over the past 200 years: calling into question some of the most fundamental ideas in this field:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415589606
• ISBN13: 9780415589604
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"