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Culture on drugs : narco-cultural studies of high modernity / Dave Boothroyd.

By: Boothroyd, DaveMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006Description: ix, 218 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0719055989 (hbk.) :; 0719055997 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Drugs of abuse -- Social aspects | Narcotics -- Social aspects | Drug abuse -- Psychological aspects | Intellectual life | Social evolutionDDC classification: 394.14 Summary: The author addresses important issues in the topic of where our culture places drugs. He also examines what major figures such as Freud, Sartre and Derrida have said about the topic, and what major researchers of drugs and culture have found. The drugs of which the effects were researched, include cocaine, hashish, mescaline, LSD and heroin, as well as cultural intoxications such as materialism.
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Includes bibliography (p.[206]-211) and index.

The author addresses important issues in the topic of where our culture places drugs. He also examines what major figures such as Freud, Sartre and Derrida have said about the topic, and what major researchers of drugs and culture have found. The drugs of which the effects were researched, include cocaine, hashish, mescaline, LSD and heroin, as well as cultural intoxications such as materialism.

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