The making of addiction : the 'use and abuse' of opium in nineteenth-century Britain

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Perspectives on addiction......Page 10
Modern definitions of addiction......Page 15
Opium in context: a brief history of antiquity of use, methods of production, and means of imbibing......Page 17
Concluding remarks......Page 21
Part I: The Cultural History of Addiction in Nineteenth-Century Britain......Page 24
Experience and empathy......Page 26
Thomas De Quincey and the experience of addiction......Page 28
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the experience of addiction......Page 39
The double-edged sword of opium......Page 48
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary experiences of addiction......Page 49
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning......Page 55
Lizzie Siddall and Dante Gabriel Rossetti......Page 57
Opium addiction in mid - to late Victorian fiction......Page 60
Concluding remarks......Page 67
News of foreign practices......Page 70
The anti-opium movement......Page 74
Medicine and the Chinese influence......Page 81
Concluding remarks......Page 84
Part II: The Medical History of Addiction in Nineteenth-Century Britain......Page 86
The poisonous beginnings of ‘use and abuse’......Page 88
Early warnings......Page 89
The case of the Earl of Mar......Page 92
Suicide, accidental poisoning, and the growing response......Page 98
Poisonous fears and poisonous years......Page 109
Toxicology: the need to define poison......Page 114
Concluding remarks......Page 119
Background to changes into the medical perception of addiction......Page 122
Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writings on addiction......Page 125
Addiction as a disease......Page 128
Medical responsibility and culpability......Page 135
Concluding remarks......Page 146
The swing of the pendulum......Page 148
The pathologist......Page 151
The physician......Page 160
The philosopher......Page 168
Concluding remarks......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 174
Appendix 1: Opium strengths and doses......Page 180
Appendix 2: Opium and alcohol......Page 182
Bibliography......Page 188
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