Ashes to Ashes

The History of Smoking and Health
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-420-0396-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Clio Medica

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 with health, but the varied attitudes towards smoking, which have included regarding it as ‘manly', relaxing, fashionable - and decadent. A particular feature was a witness seminar attended not only by those who had made the initial discovery but by those with a crucial role in promoting public awareness of the dangers. And, as shown in this book, we still cannot escape the paradox that, while a considerable proportion of a country's population is hooked on the cigarette, the tobacco industry and the government are equally addicted to the profits and tax revenues it generates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lock, Stephen

Reynolds, Lois

Tansey, E.M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

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

Sir 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

Sir Christopher C. BOOTH

Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking

Sir 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

Sir 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