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Abstract: Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and social, political, and economic disparities. Contributors to this collection explore how drugs and alcohol intersect with diverse histories, including gender, medicine, popular culture, and business. Pleasure and Panic brings a dispassionate voice to current debates about liberalizing drug and alcohol laws and challenges existing ideas about how to deal with the so-called problems of drug and alcohol use. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: The transgressive woman: gender, class, alcohol, and drugs in Canada from 1850 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh -- "To find out the best men and to try to get them in": Women, temperance, and politics in Manchester, 1873-1919 / Cynthia Belaskie -- Youth, drugs, and surveillance at Manseau's Woodstock Pop Festival / Eric Fillion -- John Lennon, the Le Dain Commission, and the rise of the celebrity activist / Greg Marquis -- Manhood, drink, and the "medical heresy" of US Army surgeon James Mann (1812-16) / Renée Lafferty-Salhany -- Medicinal purposes: pharmacists, professionalism, and liquor laws in victorian Ontario / Dan Malleck -- A new perspective on harm reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD rescue service / Chris Elcock -- Flogging a dead horse? Adulteration and brewing in nineteenth-century England / Jonathan Reinarz -- Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The story of the first Chinese-Canadian hotel licensee in Post-prohibition Alberta / Sarah E. Hamill -- The rise of the "Big Three": The emergence of a Canadian brewing oligopoly, 1945-62 / Matthew J. Bellamy.

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