03962cam a2200733 4500 ceremonialchemist00szas CaSfIA 20250721225803.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 740411s1974 nyu ob 001 0 eng 74002834 (OCoLC)1029276623 DLC eng DLC MUQ BTCTA GEQ VOV ZVM ZCU OCLCF OCLCO P4I OCLCQ OCLCO CaSfIA 0385066279 9780385066273 n-us--- HV5825 .S95 WM270 S996c 1974 613.8 Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012. Ceremonial chemistry, the ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers [by] Thomas Szasz. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1974. 1 online resource (xix, 243 pages) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230). Introduction -- Pharmakos: the scapegoat -- The discovery of drug addiction -- The scapegoat as drug and the drug as scapegoat -- Medicine: the faith of the faithless -- Communions, holy and unholy -- Pharmacomythology: medicine as magic -- Licit and illicit healing: persecutions for witchcraft and drugcraft -- Opium and Orientals: the model American scapegoats -- Drugs and devils: the conversion cure of Malcolm X -- Food abuse and foodaholism: from soul watching to weight watching -- Pharmacracy: medicine as social control -- Missionary medicine: holy wars on unholy drugs -- Cures and controls: panaceas and panapathogens -- Temptation and temperance: the moral perspective reconsidered -- The control of conduct: authority versus autonomy -- Appendix: a synoptic history of the promotion and prohibition of drugs. A psychoanalyst reports on the causes of drug abuse and views addicts and pushers as society's scapegoats. Also issued online. Drug abuse United States. Social control. Drug control United States. Drug abuse. Drug and narcotic control. Médicaments Abus États-Unis. Contrôle social. Drogue, Lutte contre la États-Unis. Drug abuse. fast (OCoLC)fst00898480 Drug control. fast (OCoLC)fst01032891 Social control. fast (OCoLC)fst01122415 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 Online version: Szasz, Thomas Stephen, 1920- Ceremonial chemistry. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1974 (OCoLC)572735357 https://archive.org/details/ceremonialchemist00szas Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5043193M Additional information and access via Open Library ceremonialchemist00szas ark:/13960/t03z27457