Ceremonial chemistry : the ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers /
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| Language: | English |
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Syracuse [N.Y.] :
Syracuse University Press,
2003.
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| Edition: | Rev. ed., 1st Syracuse University Press ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Discovery of drug addiction
- Scapegoat as drug and the drug as scapegoat
- Medicine: the faith of the faithless
- Communions, holy and unholy
- Licit and illicit healing: persecutions for witchcraft and drugcraft
- Opium and orientals: the model American scapegoats
- Drugs and devils: the conversion cure of Malcolm X
- Food abuse and foodaholism: from soul watching to weight watching
- Missionary medicine: holy wars on unholy drugs
- Cures and controls: panaceas and panapathogens
- Temptation and temperence: the moral perspective reconsidered
- Control of conduct: authority versus autonomy.