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" Ceremonial chemistry "
[by] Thomas Szasz.
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BL
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627583
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| Main Entry
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Szasz, Thomas,1920-2012.
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Ceremonial chemistry, : the ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers\ [by] Thomas Szasz.
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[1st ed.]
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Garden City, N.Y.,: Anchor Press,, 1974.
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xix, 243 p.; 22 cm.
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0385066279
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: 9780385066273
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Bibliography: p. [225]-230.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Pharmakos: the scapegoat -- The discovery of drug addiction -- The scapegoat as drug and the drug as scapegoat -- Medicine: the faith of the faithless -- Communions, holy and unholy -- Pharmacomythology: medicine as magic -- 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 -- Pharmacracy: medicine as social control -- Missionary medicine: holy wars on unholy drugs -- Cures and controls: panaceas and panapathogens -- Temptation and temperance: the moral perspective reconsidered -- The control of conduct: authority versus autonomy -- Appendix: a synoptic history of the promotion and prohibition of drugs.
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A psychoanalyst reports on the causes of drug abuse and views addicts and pushers as society's scapegoats.
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Drug abuse-- United States.
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Social control.
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Drug control-- United States.
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Drug abuse.
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Drug and narcotic control.
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613.8
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HV5825.S95
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WM270 S996c 1974
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