Ceremonial chemistry : the ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers / Thomas Szasz, with a new preface, afterword, and an expanded appendix by the author.

Author/creator Szasz, Thomas
Format Book
EditionRev. ed., 1st Syracuse University Press ed.
Publication InfoSyracuse [N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, 2003.
Descriptionxxi, 290 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects

Contents The discovery of drug addiction -- The scapegoat as drug and the drug as scapegoat -- Medicine: the faith of the faithless -- Communions, holy and unholy -- Lycit 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 -- The control of conduct: authority versus autonomy.
General note"Originally published in 1974 by Anchor Press, Doubleday; revised edition published in 1985 by Learning Publications. An expanded revised edition reprinted by arrangement with the author."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-278) and index.
LCCN 2003009794
ISBN0815607687 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HV5825 .S95 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold