Designed for the introduction to drugs and substance abuse course as taught in departments of health education, psychology, biology, sociology, and criminal justice, this full-color market-leading text provides the latest information on drugs and their effects on society and human behavior. For over thirty years, instructors and students have ...
Biotechnologies - ranging from genetic manipulation to pharmacology and surgical tehniques - are rapidly making it possible to enhance an individual's appearance, mood, mental and physical abilities, and even personality in ways previously only imagined. In this volume, scholars from philosophy, sociology, history, theology, women's studies and ...
This work considers the larger social and political framework within which psychotropic drug development proceeds. It is intended to be of interest to psychiatrists, pharmacologists, pharmaceutical physicians, academic and practising clinicians, and medical sociologists.
In this exploration of drugs' influence on Western culture, a historian argues that governmental and religious institutions have both promoted and condemned the use of mind-altering chemicals like caffeine, cocaine, and marijuana. His numerous examples include 18th-century American colonists' attempts to bribe Native Americans to attend church, ...
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