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060 10 $aWM 270$bS996c 1985a
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100 1 $aSzasz, Thomas Stephen,$d1920-
245 10 $aCeremonial chemistry :$bthe ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers /$cThomas Szasz ; with a new preface, afterword, and an expanded appendix by the author.
250 $aRev. ed., 1st Syracuse University Press ed.
260 $aSyracuse, N.Y. :$bSyracuse University Press,$cc2003.
300 $axxi, 290 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $a"Originally published in 1974 by Anchor Press, Doubleday; revised edition published in 1985 by Learning Publications. An expanded revised edition reprinted at Syracuse University Press by arrangement with the author"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-278) and index.
505 0 $aThe discovery of drug addiction -- The scapegoat as drug and the drug as scapegoat -- Medicine: the faith of the faithless -- Communions, holy and unholy -- 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 -- Missionary medicine: holy wars on unholy drugs -- Cures and controls: panaceas and panapathogens -- Temptation and temperence: the moral perspective reconsidered -- The control of conduct: authority versus autonomy.
650 0 $aDrug abuse$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSocial control.
650 0 $aDrug control$zUnited States.
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