Ashes to ashes : : the history of smoking and health : Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / / edited by S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds, and E. M. Tansey.
Future historians will wonder why, despite the risks, society persisted in its warm relationship with the cigarette; by the end of the century global consumption was still rising. The 1995 symposium at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine not only examined tobacco's connection wit...
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Superior document: | The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, GA : : Rodopi,, 1998. |
Year of Publication: | 1998 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Contributors / S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey
- Introduction / Stephen Lock
- Webs of Drug Dependence: Towards a Political History of Tobacco / Jordan Goodman
- ‘A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make’: Religion and Science in the British Anti-Tobacco Movement, 1853–1908 / Matthew Hilton and Simon Nightingale
- The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting / David Harley
- Tobacco and Victorian Literature / Hugh Cockerell
- Pushing the Weed: The Editorializing and Advertising of Tobacco in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1880–1958 / Peter Bartrip
- The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer / Richard Doll
- Science and Policy: The Case of Postwar British Smoking Policy / Virginia Berridge
- Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture / Allan M. Brandt
- Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians / Christopher C. Booth
- Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking / Francis Avery Jones
- The Story of the Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians / Charles Fletcher
- ASH: Witness on Smoking / David Simpson
- Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize / John Crofton
- Horace Joules’ Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking / Keith Ball
- The History of the Norwegian Ban on Tobacco Advertising / Kjell Bjartveit
- Concluding Remarks / Roy Porter
- Index / S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey.