Between Morpheus and Mary: The Public Debate on Morphine in Dutch Newspapers, 1880-1939
This dissertation focuses on the development of the Dutch public debate on morphine between 1880 and 1939. Around 1900 morphine was known on the one hand as a medical ‘Morpheus’: an important painkiller. On the other, people knew the substance as ‘Mary’, a street drug used and sold nonmedically. Between 1900 and 1939 concern about the nonmedical use of narcotics greatly increased. Using an analysis of Dutch digitized newspapers, I show how morphine kept its medical reputation during this time. First, morphine’s historical reputation safeguarded its medical status in the Dutch public debate. Be... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Dissertation |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Schlagwörter: | morphine / digitized newspapers / Netherlands / history of drugs / public debate / narcotics / history of medicine / digital history |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27611408 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/387558 |