DrugsThe Lessons from History?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23409385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Virginia Berridge (0000-0001-8011-8348, History, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 664-680 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190842642.013.37 |
| OpenAlex | W4220886144 |
| ISBN | 9780190842642 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This epilogue chapter carries a big question mark. Rather than simply list the big things historians now know about drugs and recommend to policymakers or the public, it asks the deeper more nuanced historical question of how the growing body of drug history research has actually been deployed. What could the “lessons of history” be? (but largely haven’t been); the polemical uses of drug history by non-historians; its argumentative use by historians (for example, in law courts); its non-polemical uses and genres; the role of personal networks and political “boundary figures”; what activism (“hot” or “cold”) means in drug policy, and is it effective; and surprisingly neglected areas of historical work which ought to be thought about in relation to changing drug policy futures.
American History and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical and Scientific Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |