Junk medicine : doctors, lies and the addiction bureaucracy
Dalrymple, Theodore2007
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Place reservation for Junk medicine : doctors, lies and the addiction bureaucracyTheodore Dalrymple explains how and why a literary tradition dating back to De Quincey and Coleridge has misled all Western societies for generations about the nature of heroin addiction. He argues that addiction to heroin is not an illness at all, and that doctors only make it worse.
Main title:
Junk medicine : doctors, lies and the addiction bureaucracy / by Theodore Dalrymple.
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Imprint:
Petersfield : Harriman House, 2007.
Collation:
146 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: as Romancing opiates. New York: Encounter, 2006.Includes index.
ISBN:
9781905641598 (hbk)
Dewey class:
362.293362.293362.2'93
Local class:
362.293
Language:
English
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BRN:
1406373
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