The Making of Addiction
How nineteenth-century doctors turned the use of opium into a disease called addiction.
Louise Foxcroft’s history of how opium use came to be seen as a disease in nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on medical texts of the period, she follows doctors’ shifting explanations of habit and addiction and the treatments they tried, and shows how the idea of addiction was shaped by moral judgement as much as by science.
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