Ceremonial chemistry : the ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers /
Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012.
Ceremonial chemistry : the ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers / Thomas Szasz, with a new preface, afterword, and an expanded appendix by the author. - Rev. ed. - Syracuse, N.Y. ; [Great Britain] : Syracuse University Press, c2003. - p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.The discovery of drug addiction -- 2.The scapegoat as drug and the drug as scapegoat -- 3.Medicine: the faith of the faithless -- 4.Communions, holy and unholy -- 5.Licit and illicit healing: persecutions for witchcraft and drugcraft -- 6.Opium and orientals: the modle American scapegoats -- 7.Drugs and devils: the conversation cure of Malcolm X -- 8.Food abuse and foodaholism: from soul watching to weight watching -- 9.Missionary medicine: holy wars on unholy drugs -- 10.Cures and controls: panaceas and panapathogens -- 11.Temptation and temperance: the moral perspective reconsidered -- 12.The control of conduct: authority versus autonomy.
In this polemical response to the controversy about drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labelling and prohibiting certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating "addicts" in order to cure them.
9780815607687 (pbk. : alk. paper) : No price 9780815607687
Drug abuse--United States
Social control.
Narcotics, Control of--United States
Drug and Narcotic Control.
Substance-Related Disorders.
Health Policy.
Personal Autonomy.
Social Values.
Popular culture
Illness & addiction: social aspects
Central / national / federal government policies
HV5825
363.450973 SZA
Ceremonial chemistry : the ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers / Thomas Szasz, with a new preface, afterword, and an expanded appendix by the author. - Rev. ed. - Syracuse, N.Y. ; [Great Britain] : Syracuse University Press, c2003. - p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.The discovery of drug addiction -- 2.The scapegoat as drug and the drug as scapegoat -- 3.Medicine: the faith of the faithless -- 4.Communions, holy and unholy -- 5.Licit and illicit healing: persecutions for witchcraft and drugcraft -- 6.Opium and orientals: the modle American scapegoats -- 7.Drugs and devils: the conversation cure of Malcolm X -- 8.Food abuse and foodaholism: from soul watching to weight watching -- 9.Missionary medicine: holy wars on unholy drugs -- 10.Cures and controls: panaceas and panapathogens -- 11.Temptation and temperance: the moral perspective reconsidered -- 12.The control of conduct: authority versus autonomy.
In this polemical response to the controversy about drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labelling and prohibiting certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating "addicts" in order to cure them.
9780815607687 (pbk. : alk. paper) : No price 9780815607687
Drug abuse--United States
Social control.
Narcotics, Control of--United States
Drug and Narcotic Control.
Substance-Related Disorders.
Health Policy.
Personal Autonomy.
Social Values.
Popular culture
Illness & addiction: social aspects
Central / national / federal government policies
HV5825
363.450973 SZA