READING:
WRITING ON DRUGS
SADIE PLANT
2000. Picador.ISBN 0312278748

Sadie Plant presents drugs in the context of cultural history and examines the role of drugs in society from a variety of disciplines - history, political science, psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics. Covering a wide range odf topics from Sigmund Freud on cocaine to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari on capitalism and schizophrenia, from the CIA's involvement in drug trafficking to the neurochemistry of psychoactive substances, and from the connections between drugs and witchcraft to an examination of the marketing of Coca-Cola.

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