Louise Foxcroft, The making of addiction: the ‘use and abuse’ of opium in nineteenth-century Britain, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xvii, 199, £55.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5633-3).

Virginia Berridge

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Louise Foxcroft, The making of addiction: the ‘use and abuse’ of opium in nineteenth-century Britain, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xvii, 199, £55.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5633-3).

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Information: Medical History , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 292 - 293

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Louise Foxcroft, The making of addiction: the ‘use and abuse’ of opium in nineteenth-century Britain, The History of Medicine in Context, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xvii, 199, £55.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5633-3).

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