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A Brief History of Cocaine is a thoroughly researched, fascinating account of the role cocaine has played in worldwide history, politics, economics, and science. Travel with bestselling author Steven B. Karch as he traces the path of cocaine from the coca cash crops of Spain to the prestigious pharmaceutical houses of Amsterdam into the banking industry of Japan. Learn about experimentation with the drug throughout the centuries, including the work of Sigmund Freud, who suggested that cocaine be used to treat morphine addiction. Discover how cocaine has been grown, refined, distributed, and abused around the world for four centuries. Finally, understand why the cocaine trade remains a thriving business despite government regulation. An essential analysis of an age-old problem, A Brief History of Cocaine places the "war on drugs" in its historical context and predicts if we are destined to lose.
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Steven Karch, Crown pathologist in the Harold Shipman case, teaches regularly for the Police Surgeons and the Home Office Pathologists. A prolific writer, mostly about the medical consequences of drug abuse, his book The Pathology of Drug Abuse is a standard reference. Steven Karch, Crown pathologist in the Harold Shipman case, teaches regularly for the Police Surgeons and the Home Office Pathologists. A prolific writer, mostly about the medical consequences of drug abuse, his book The Pathology of Drug Abuse is a standard reference.
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"Bursting at the bindings with fascinating facts, Steven Karch's A Brief History of Cocaine is just that: the exploitation of the coca leaf and cocaine. We learn a lot." - Adrian Branett, in New Scientist Magazine, April 1998 "Steven Karch does not claim that his book is the definitive history of cocaine, but it is the best volume on the topica convenient, scholarly, and well-written outline of cocaine's history." - David F. Musto, Psychiatry, Yale University, in American Scientist, Volume 86
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- PublisherCRC Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0849340195
- ISBN 13 9780849340192
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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