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Author Markel, Howard.

Title An anatomy of addiction : Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine / Howard Markel.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  362.29 MARKEL    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  362.298 MAR    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  362.29 MAR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.298 MARKEL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  362.298 MAR    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  362.298 MARKEL    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  362.298 MA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-304) and index.
Summary The astonishing account of the decades-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted. The author discusses the physical and emotional damage caused by the constant use of the then-heralded wonder drug, and of how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it--or because of it.
Contents Young Freud -- Young Halsted -- Uber coca -- An addict's death -- The accidental addict -- Cocaine damnation -- Sigmund in Paris -- Rehabilitating Halsted -- The interpretation of dreams -- The professor -- Dr. Freud's coca coda -- Dr. Halsted in limbo.
Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Psychoanalysts -- Austria -- Biography.
Halsted, William, 1852-1922.
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Cocaine -- History.
Cocaine abuse.
ISBN 9780375423307: $28.95
0375423303
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