Opium: Reality''s Dark Dream
ISBN: 9780300183658
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Opium abuse -- History; Opium trade -- History; Opium -- History;

Is opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising new insights.


Thomas Dormandy is a retired consultant pathologist, Whittington Hospital, University of London, and Brunel University, London. He is the author of several books, including the prize-winning The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis . He lives in London.

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