Richard DeGrandpre

The Cult of Pharmacology

How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Richard DeGrandpre is an independent scholar of drugs and other "technologies of the self." He has a doctorate in psychopharmacology and was a fellow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He is the author of Ritalin Nation: Rapid-Fire Culture and the Transformation of Human Consciousness and Digitopia: The Look of the New Digital You. He has also written numerous scientific, theoretical, and popular articles on drugs and is a former senior editor at Adbusters magazine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 149mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349075
• ISBN-10: 0822349078
• Artikelnr.: 32920391

Autorenporträt

Richard DeGrandpre

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Part One. End of a Century
1. Mama Coca 3
2. Cult of the SSRI 34
3. The Emperor's New Smokes 64
Part Two. Earlier Times
4. The Placebo Text 103
5. America's Domestic Drug Affair 138
6. War 170
Part Three. While at War
7. The Drug Reward 179
8. Possessed by the Stimulus 208
9. Ideology 236
Appendix One. Escalation of American Drug Laws in the Twentieth Century 243
Appendix Two. U.S. Regulations Allowing a White Market for Drugs in the
Twentieth Century 245
Notes 247
Selective Bibliography 283
Index 287