Ebook: Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

How medicine normalized the consumption of mind-altering drugs and the chemical enhancement of modern life.

Nineteenth-century drug consumption permeated French society and encouraged the chemical enhancement of modern life. Drugging France highlights the medical histories of these drugs, chronicling how doctors transformed exotic botanicals and unpredictable chemicals into substances that reconfigured how people experienced their minds and bodies.