Writing on Drugs - Hardcover

Plant, Sadie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374293341 ISBN 13: 9780374293345

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000

Synopsis

The author explores the intimate and often fruitful relationship between drugs--narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens--and the quest for knowledge by focusing on the writers who used them well--Coleridge, Freud, and Burroughs among them.

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Review:

'A fascinating cultural quest to discover how such blanket - and in the end blind - moral prohibition has come to the fore in our relationship to narcotics... she balances accessibility with intellectual rigour... she weaves writers' experiences of amazing highs with the cold, hard science of how chemicals would have interacted with their synapses to get them tripping.' Tim Teeman, The Times 'It is something of a relief to turn to the poised clarity with which Plant anatomises our species' varied relationships with stuff that makes your head go funny.' Charles Shaar Murray, Independent 'A comprehensive account of how drugs have come to shape the modern world.' The Face

Book Description:

Writing on Drugs by Sadie Plant is fascinating look at an ignored aspect of our history and culture, a 'comprehensive account of how drugs have come to shape the modern world.' (The Face)

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0374293341
• ISBN 13: 9780374293345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294