The Control of Fuddle and Flash
A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates
Biographical note
Jan-Willem Gerritsen (1957-1993) graduated in sociology at the University of Amsterdam and completed his doctor's thesis at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. As a student, he worked as an assistant to professor Nobert Elias. As a journalist, he contributed to a variety of Dutch newspapers and periodicals. As a sociologist, he conducted extensive historical and comparitive research into different regimes of social control of alcohol and opiates. This book represents the fruits of this research. Jan-Willem Gerritsen died in 1993, shortly after finishing this study.
Readership
Academics in history, sociology, politics/international realtions and cultural studies. It should be required reading for those interested in the history and sociology of the colonial opium trade, the use and regulation of alcohol and opiates in general and on contemporary drug problems and drug policies in particular.
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
1. A taxonomy of intoxicants
An alternative classification
Developments in neurophysiology
The action of opiates
The lessons of ethology
2. The supply side: alcohol
The control of yeast
Beer, wine and strong liquor
Commercialization and increased scale of operations
3. The supply side: opiates
The domestication of Papaver somniferum
The three markets for opium
4. The colonial opium trade
Britain and the Netherlands: a profitable trade
The global regulation of opiates: the role played by the United States
5. Excise taxes on alcohol: three countries
The sociology of taxation
Alcohol excise and state formation in the Netherlands and Britain
Alcohol excise and state formation in the United States
6. Physicians as suppliers
The origins of national medical regimes for opiates
Morphine and the hypodermic syringe
7. Industrialization and the war on alcohol
Three paces of industrialization
The temperance movement and its origins
The anti-alcohol struggle: three variants
Coda
8. Physicians as detoxifiers
Alcoholism: from sin to syndrome
Medical practitioners and opiate addiction: a history of delayed reaction
From sin to sickness—and back again? The modern addiction syndrome
9. The dynamics of prohibition and illegal supply
US Prohibition”: 1920-1933
The illegal market for opiates: 1912 to the present day
Illegal drug markets: global features
10 Summary and conclusions
State formation and the regulation of intoxicants
Physicians as suppliers
Industrialization and the anti-alcohol movement
Physicians as detoxifiers
The dynamics of prohibition and illegal supply
Coda
Bibliography
Update
Credits
Index
Introduction
1. A taxonomy of intoxicants
An alternative classification
Developments in neurophysiology
The action of opiates
The lessons of ethology
2. The supply side: alcohol
The control of yeast
Beer, wine and strong liquor
Commercialization and increased scale of operations
3. The supply side: opiates
The domestication of Papaver somniferum
The three markets for opium
4. The colonial opium trade
Britain and the Netherlands: a profitable trade
The global regulation of opiates: the role played by the United States
5. Excise taxes on alcohol: three countries
The sociology of taxation
Alcohol excise and state formation in the Netherlands and Britain
Alcohol excise and state formation in the United States
6. Physicians as suppliers
The origins of national medical regimes for opiates
Morphine and the hypodermic syringe
7. Industrialization and the war on alcohol
Three paces of industrialization
The temperance movement and its origins
The anti-alcohol struggle: three variants
Coda
8. Physicians as detoxifiers
Alcoholism: from sin to syndrome
Medical practitioners and opiate addiction: a history of delayed reaction
From sin to sickness—and back again? The modern addiction syndrome
9. The dynamics of prohibition and illegal supply
US Prohibition”: 1920-1933
The illegal market for opiates: 1912 to the present day
Illegal drug markets: global features
10 Summary and conclusions
State formation and the regulation of intoxicants
Physicians as suppliers
Industrialization and the anti-alcohol movement
Physicians as detoxifiers
The dynamics of prohibition and illegal supply
Coda
Bibliography
Update
Credits
Index
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