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  title info:
    title: White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916-1960
  name:
    name part: Hallam, Christopher.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 249 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book traces the history of the London 'white drugs' (opiate and cocaine) subculture from the First World War to the end of the classic 'British System' of drug prescribing in the 1960s. It also examines the regulatory forces that tried to suppress non-medical drug use, in both their medical and juridical forms. Drugs subcultures were previously thought to have begun as part of the post-war youth culture, but in fact they existed from at least the 1930s. In this book, two networks of drug users are explored, one emerging from the disaffected youth of the aristocracy, the other from the night-time economy of London's West End. Their drug use was caught up in a kind of dance whose steps represented cultural conflicts over identity and the modernism and Victorianism that coexisted in interwar Britain.
  table of contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 From injudicious prescribing to the script doctor: transgressive addiction treatment in the interwar years -- 3 The Chelsea network and white drug use in the 1930s -- 4 Heroin and the West End life, 1935-1938 -- 5 The regulation of opiates under the classic British System, 1920-1945 -- 6 The Royal College of Physicians Committee on Drug Addiction, 1938-1947 -- 7 Morphine and morale: the British System and the Second World War -- 8 Postwar Britain: subcultural transitions and transmissions -- 9 Conclusions.
  note: by Christopher Hallam.
  subject:
    topic: Great Britain-History
  subject:
    topic: Medicine-History
  subject:
    topic: History, Modern
  subject:
    topic: Civilization-History
  subject:
    topic: Medical policy
  subject:
    topic: History of Britain and Ireland
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Modern History
  subject:
    topic: Cultural History
  subject:
    topic: Health Policy
  classification: DA1-995
  classification: 941
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319947709
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94770-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 180809
    record change date: 20191027161126.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-94770-9