Toby Seddon

A History of Drugs

Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A History of Drugs details the history of the relationship between drugs and freedom over the last two hundred years; thus disturbing and unravelling the 'naturalness' of the 'drug question', as it traces the multiple and heterogeneous lines of development out of which it has been assembled.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415480277
• ISBN-10: 0415480272
• Artikelnr.: 29337715

Autorenporträt

Toby Seddon is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Law at the University of Manchester where he is also Director of the Regulation, Security and Justice Research Centre. He is author of Punishment and Madness (Routledge-Cavendish).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Drugs
Freedom and Liberalism 2. A Conceptual Map: Freedom
the 'Will' and Addiction 3. Opium
Regulation and Classical Liberalism: The Pharmacy Act 1868 4. Drugs
Prohibition and Welfarism: The Dangerous Drugs Act 1920 5. Drugs
Risk and Neo-liberalism: The Drugs Act 2005 6. Drugs as a Regulation and Governance Problem 7. Conclusions: Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age