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

Publication Info.	New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (xx, 314 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-304) and index.
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.
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.
Note	Description based on print version record.
	GMD: electronic resource.
Subject	Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
	Halsted, William, 1852-1922.
	Psychoanalysts -- Austria -- Biography.
	Surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
	Cocaine -- History.
	Cocaine abuse.
	Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
	Halsted, William, 1852-1922.
	General Surgery -- Biography.
	Psychoanalysis -- Biography.
	Anesthesia -- history.
	Anesthesiology -- history.
	Cocaine-Related Disorders -- history.
	History, 19th Century -- Biography.
	History, 20th Century -- Biography.
Other Form:	Print version: Markel, Howard. Anatomy of addiction. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2011 9780375423307 (DLC) 2010033782 (OCoLC)659304879

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