Ambivalent pleasures soft drugs and embodied anxiety in early modern Europe / Scott K. Taylor.

Contents Introduction -- Stained with Spots of Human Blood : Disgust, Pleasure, and the Senses -- Chocolate, or an Indian Drink : The Cultural Geography of Drugs and Alcohol -- Who from Excess Is Free? Medicine and Addiction -- Do We Take Physick Every Day? Early Modern Wellness and Self-Medication -- And So the Game Goes Round : Women and Sociability -- Who Should Poison the People? The Ethics of Commerce -- Conclusion : An English Opium-Eater.
Abstract "Tracing the moral and medical panics about addictive commodities that flourished after tobacco, chocolate, sugar, coffee, tea, and gin were introduced into Europe as a result of early modern colonial exploitation"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Taylor, Scott K., 1969- Ambivalent pleasures Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501775468
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