{"title":"David Fahey, Temperance Societies in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020.","authors":"A. McAllister","doi":"10.1086/718306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48268168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the emergence of a selfhood organized around the experience of drug addiction in 1930s Britain, taking as its focus the autobiographical writings of the aristocratic “society” drug addict Brenda Dean Paul. It details the various discourses deployed by Dean Paul in her process of self-fashioning, and so builds on recent work demonstrating the agency exercised by addicts in the face of proliferating systems of control constructed in these years by illustrating their simultaneous discursive agency. In addition, the study offers a new perspective on the relationship between class and culture in interwar Britain. In contrast to other accounts that explore how the critique of popular culture offered by upper-class commentators served to reinforce social hierarchies, this article demonstrates how, in other hands, popular culture provided a vehicle for bridging the gulf between classes.
{"title":"“A Rather Spectacular Figure”: The “Society” Drug Addict in 1930s Britain","authors":"E. Hicks","doi":"10.1086/718293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718293","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the emergence of a selfhood organized around the experience of drug addiction in 1930s Britain, taking as its focus the autobiographical writings of the aristocratic “society” drug addict Brenda Dean Paul. It details the various discourses deployed by Dean Paul in her process of self-fashioning, and so builds on recent work demonstrating the agency exercised by addicts in the face of proliferating systems of control constructed in these years by illustrating their simultaneous discursive agency. In addition, the study offers a new perspective on the relationship between class and culture in interwar Britain. In contrast to other accounts that explore how the critique of popular culture offered by upper-class commentators served to reinforce social hierarchies, this article demonstrates how, in other hands, popular culture provided a vehicle for bridging the gulf between classes.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"36 1","pages":"72 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45022936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthony Ryan Hatch, Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.","authors":"C. Blakley","doi":"10.1086/715904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45008930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stuart McCook, Coffee Is Not Forever: A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019.","authors":"J. Lourdusamy","doi":"10.1086/715901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49441634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lawrence Millman, Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.","authors":"Peder Clark","doi":"10.1086/715898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715898","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42848381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Olga Zvonareva, Pharmapolitics in Russia: Making Drugs and Rebuilding the Nation. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2020.","authors":"Miriam F. Lipton","doi":"10.1086/715900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44427984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nancy D. Campbell, OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose. Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press, 2020.","authors":"Erika Dyck","doi":"10.1086/715902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48988195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benjamin R. Cohen, Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.","authors":"Clare Gordon Bettencourt","doi":"10.1086/715897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715897","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41858473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laurence Monnais, The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam, trans. Noèmi Tousignant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.","authors":"V. Neelakantan","doi":"10.1086/715896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47949022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michelle L. McClellan, Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017.","authors":"Michael G. Lynch","doi":"10.1086/715905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715905","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48092857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}