Inventing the Addict

Susan Marjorie Zieger

University of Massachusetts Press, 2008

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Tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. This book traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors.

ISBN-13
9781558496804
ISBN-10
1558496807
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Year
2008
Publication date
2008-11-05
Pages
360
Dimensions
152x227x21
Weight
434