Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances in History, Culture and Theory: Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances

ISBN-13: 9780367257637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 276 str.

Susannah Wilson

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Offering new critical reflections on the reasons prohibitions have historically arisen, the book analyses "prohibitions" as ambivalent and tenuous interactions between the users of psychoactive substances and regulators of their use.

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Susannah Wilson is Associate Professor in French Studies the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on medical cultures of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. She is the author of Voices from the Asylum: Four French Women Writers, 1850-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2010). She held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 2011-2014 and currently holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a book project on the cultural history of morphine in France.