圖書標籤: 曆史 科普 心理學 DavidT. Courtwright 英文版 飲食 society-social-sci
发表于2024-10-01
Forces of Habit pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book provides the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines. Offering a social and biological account of why psychoactive goods proved so seductive, David Courtwright tracks the intersecting paths by which popular drugs entered the stream of global commerce. He shows how the efforts of merchants and colonial planters expanded world supply, drove down prices, and drew millions of less affluent purchasers into the market, effectively democratizing drug consumption. He also shows how Europeans used alcohol as an inducement for native peoples to trade their furs, sell captives into slavery, and negotiate away their lands, and how monarchs taxed drugs to finance their wars and expanding empires. This text explains why such profitable exploitation has increasingly given way, over the last hundred years, to policies of restriction and prohibition - and how economic and cultural considerations have shaped those policies to determine which drugs are readily accessible, which strictly medicinal, and which forbidden altogether.
戴維·考特萊特,北佛羅裏達大學曆史學教授,著作包括《暴力之地:從邊境到內地城市的單身男人與社會失序》、《黑暗樂園:美國鴉片毒癮的曆史》。
從資本擴張的角度看各種成癮物質影響力、法律管理力度等如何形成。詳細筆記見Evernote
評分1.對人類具有成癮性威脅的植物本身是為瞭令食草動物産生幻覺,從而自我保護 2.不同類的成癮藥物有相互抵消的效果(令我想起茶的醒酒作用)3.現在藥物的成癮(危害)性與受禁程度並不成正比,除卻偶然因素,權力的乾涉太重要瞭。(對我個人而言,這本書格外寫實而親切,《毒梟》中哥倫比亞與美國的糾葛、《廣告狂人》中的Lucky Strike煙草公司與麥迪遜大街的閤作與解散,竟然都有所提及。)
評分有個review不錯,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
評分the key message is powerful. Behind global market and trade, economic forces and additive characteristics of the drugs are so intertwined.
評分有個review不錯,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
很感激翻开这本书,因为这本书让我看到人类的另外一面,了解了更多关于瘾品以及人类,原来带着瘾品的有色眼镜看出来,世界是这样一种模样。 这本书非常全面的介绍了各种可以使人得到快乐感觉并最终会上瘾的各种瘾品,并且简要的介绍了500年以来在各个国家地区间这些瘾品的发展...
評分如果从故事会的角度来看这本书,你肯定会看到许多关于瘾品的有趣故事。然而,站在投资者的角度来看这本书,也许会是另一个非常好的故事。 瘾有分为物质成瘾及行为成瘾,本书主要是讲述物质成瘾(可卡因、海洛因、吗啡、咖啡因等),而行为成瘾是和物质无关的强迫症,如赌瘾和网...
評分我没成为酒鬼,是因为我从来都拒绝第一杯酒。(洛克菲勒) 洛克菲勒是个有钱人,每个洛克菲勒好像都很有钱。 洛克菲勒家有很多有趣的故事,因为他们很有钱,所以大家喜欢讲的,往往是那些有关解释他们为何有钱的段子。但最有趣的,其实是我上面引用的那句话。 并且,洛克...
評分这本还是蛮有启发性的。 开始当作解答“为什么”的书来读,想要了解关于人类和瘾品的关系,我们为什么会上瘾:嗜咖啡、糖、烟草、买买买……读到后面便会联想到郑也夫的那本《后物欲时代的来临》,它们有共同的主题:对消费主义全球漫滥的思考。 海洛...
評分全书结束的时候,作者将构置瘾品于政治、经济、社会、科技、文化、宗教等多维视角的斑斓图层轰然推开,反溯于我们生活的这个时代及生活在这个时代的人们本身——也许只有这个视角才是最贴切于人本身的初始视角,便因此笼罩上了乡愿般的人的味道;瘾品的历史终究要还原到人...
Forces of Habit pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024