Anatomy of Addiction Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine

Name: Anatomy of Addiction Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine
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ISBN: 9780375423307

ISBN-10: 0375423303

ISBN-13: 9780375423307

Edition: 2011

Authors: Howard Markel

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From acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of When Germs Travel, the astonishing account, told for the first time, of the decades- long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted. Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the constant use of the then- heralded wonder drug, and of how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it-or because of it. One became the father of psychoanalysis; the other, of modern surgery. Using themselves as subjects in their research-Freud experimented with cocaine as a means of treating depression, fatigue, and morphine addiction; Halsted, as a new and safe form of anesthesia-each became caught up in the drug#x19;s…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/19/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Howard Markel is Director, Historical Center for the Health Sciences, George E. Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine, and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School.



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Prologue


Young Freud


Young Halsted


ï¿½ber Coca


An Addict's Death


The Accidental Addict


Cocaine Damnation


Sigmund in Paris


Rehabilitating Halsted


The Interpretation of Dreams


ï¿½The Professorï¿½


Dr. Freud's Coca Coda


Dr. Halsted in Limbo


Epilogue


Notes


Index