Joseph F Spillane
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph F Spillane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph F |
| FAMILY NAME | Spillane |
| SIGNATURE | SPILLANE J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9943-333X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Prisoners of the archives
The archival record of incarceration in the United States presents a substantial challenge for historical research. This becomes particularly acute in those instances where historians seek to use individual patient or prisoner records. Some of these records have been deposited in state archives, but many have not, and the use of specific inmate case files can involve restrictive rules of access. In every instance, complex interplays of power, acc…
The Origins of Cocaine
Nicole Perry. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State
Journal Article Nicole Perry. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women. Get access Nicole Perry. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2021. Pp. 270. Paper $27.95. Joseph F. Spillane Joseph F. Spillane University of Florida, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Empire of Pain
Journal Article Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Get access Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. By Patrick Radden Keefe. (New York: Doubleday Books, 2021. xiv, 535 pp. Cloth, $32.50, Paper, $18.00.) Joseph Spillane Joseph Spillane University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 109, Issue 4, Marc…
Global Drug Prohibition in Local Context
Cairo’s Qasr El Aini Hospital regularly received opiate addicts in poor health, but a startling new development in April 1929 captured the attention of Dr. Alexander Gordon Biggam, Director of the Medical Unit. Patients with a history of injecting heroin were being admitted with high fevers, and diagnored with falciparum malaria. Shocked by the prevalence of the disease, which appeared confined to networks of injection drug users, Dr. Biggam hypo…
In the Weeds
The contemporary movement to reform the nation's marijuana laws has succeeded to an extent hardly imaginable as recently at the start of this century. It is a movement worthy of historical contextualization. The authors of this new study claim to offer “a historically grounded examination of marijuana policy reform” that will help us understand “how we arrived at this point” (p. vii). Writing history from the present back requires deciding at jus…
Inside The Fantastic Lodge
The Fantastic Lodge (1961) is a remarkable life history and a powerful rendering of mid-century heroin use and drug addiction. This article considers the experiences of its subject, Marilyn Bishop, from a network perspective, examining the intimate relational ties that gave shape and meaning to life within the world of Chicago’s postwar scene. Reconstructing the social networks of Marilyn’s “fantastic lodge” combines a close reading of her narrat…
Michael Javen Fortner. Black Silent Majority
The so-called Rockefeller drug laws, New York State’s draconian 1973 sentencing rules for drug law violators, eventually led even some of its original supporters to acknowledge both the injustices present within the laws and their abject failure as a policy tool. Michael Javen Fortner’s compelling new work poses the question: what forces came together to produce such legislation at that particular moment? Fortner’s work is a sustained argument fo…
Civil death
In the state of Florida, when someone is found guilty of a felony crime they forfeit the right to vote, serve on a jury, and run for elected office. These civil rights are lost regardless of whether they are sentenced to incarceration, probation, or released into the community. The process to regain these civil rights can be difficult, time consuming, and impossible for some. Research on prisoner reentry suggests that the loss of these civil righ…
Cocaine
Journal Article Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884–1920. By Joseph F. Spillane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 214 pp. $39.95 and Cocaine: Global Histories. Ed. by Paul Gootenberg. New York: Routledge, 1999. xvi, 213 pp. Cloth, $90.00 Get access Philip Jenkins Philip Jenkins Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Doctors and the Law
Journal Article Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America. By James C. Mohr. (New %rk: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi, 319 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-505384-2.) Get access Joseph F. Spillane Joseph F. Spillane Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Page 1300, https://doi.org/10.23…
Civil death
In the state of Florida, when someone is found guilty of a felony crime they forfeit the right to vote, serve on a jury, and run for elected office. These civil rights are lost regardless of whether they are sentenced to incarceration, probation, or released into the community. The process to regain these civil rights can be difficult, time consuming, and impossible for some. Research on prisoner reentry suggests that the loss of these civil righ…
In the Weeds
The contemporary movement to reform the nation's marijuana laws has succeeded to an extent hardly imaginable as recently at the start of this century. It is a movement worthy of historical contextualization. The authors of this new study claim to offer “a historically grounded examination of marijuana policy reform” that will help us understand “how we arrived at this point” (p. vii). Writing history from the present back requires deciding at jus…
Doctors and the Law
Journal Article Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America. By James C. Mohr. (New %rk: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi, 319 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-505384-2.) Get access Joseph F. Spillane Joseph F. Spillane Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Page 1300, https://doi.org/10.23…
Cocaine
Journal Article Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884–1920. By Joseph F. Spillane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 214 pp. $39.95 and Cocaine: Global Histories. Ed. by Paul Gootenberg. New York: Routledge, 1999. xvi, 213 pp. Cloth, $90.00 Get access Philip Jenkins Philip Jenkins Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Civil death
In the state of Florida, when someone is found guilty of a felony crime they forfeit the right to vote, serve on a jury, and run for elected office. These civil rights are lost regardless of whether they are sentenced to incarceration, probation, or released into the community. The process to regain these civil rights can be difficult, time consuming, and impossible for some. Research on prisoner reentry suggests that the loss of these civil righ…
Michael Javen Fortner. Black Silent Majority
The so-called Rockefeller drug laws, New York State’s draconian 1973 sentencing rules for drug law violators, eventually led even some of its original supporters to acknowledge both the injustices present within the laws and their abject failure as a policy tool. Michael Javen Fortner’s compelling new work poses the question: what forces came together to produce such legislation at that particular moment? Fortner’s work is a sustained argument fo…
Inside The Fantastic Lodge
The Fantastic Lodge (1961) is a remarkable life history and a powerful rendering of mid-century heroin use and drug addiction. This article considers the experiences of its subject, Marilyn Bishop, from a network perspective, examining the intimate relational ties that gave shape and meaning to life within the world of Chicago’s postwar scene. Reconstructing the social networks of Marilyn’s “fantastic lodge” combines a close reading of her narrat…
In the Weeds
The contemporary movement to reform the nation's marijuana laws has succeeded to an extent hardly imaginable as recently at the start of this century. It is a movement worthy of historical contextualization. The authors of this new study claim to offer “a historically grounded examination of marijuana policy reform” that will help us understand “how we arrived at this point” (p. vii). Writing history from the present back requires deciding at jus…
Global Drug Prohibition in Local Context
Cairo’s Qasr El Aini Hospital regularly received opiate addicts in poor health, but a startling new development in April 1929 captured the attention of Dr. Alexander Gordon Biggam, Director of the Medical Unit. Patients with a history of injecting heroin were being admitted with high fevers, and diagnored with falciparum malaria. Shocked by the prevalence of the disease, which appeared confined to networks of injection drug users, Dr. Biggam hypo…
The Origins of Cocaine
Nicole Perry. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State
Journal Article Nicole Perry. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women. Get access Nicole Perry. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2021. Pp. 270. Paper $27.95. Joseph F. Spillane Joseph F. Spillane University of Florida, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Empire of Pain
Journal Article Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Get access Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. By Patrick Radden Keefe. (New York: Doubleday Books, 2021. xiv, 535 pp. Cloth, $32.50, Paper, $18.00.) Joseph Spillane Joseph Spillane University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 109, Issue 4, Marc…
Prisoners of the archives
The archival record of incarceration in the United States presents a substantial challenge for historical research. This becomes particularly acute in those instances where historians seek to use individual patient or prisoner records. Some of these records have been deposited in state archives, but many have not, and the use of specific inmate case files can involve restrictive rules of access. In every instance, complex interplays of power, acc…
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