Drogues et drogues en france de 1800 a 1920
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Abstract EN:
In just over a century, the attitude towards drug consumption infrance, has moved frol a lack of interest to the image of a social peril calling for punishment by law. This work retraces the genealogy of how and why drug consumption became problematical. It shows how "the history of drugs" is part of the history of the 19 th century; how it is tied up with intellectual evolution, the changes in mentality and the economic transformation which are the trademark of that century. It analyses the process of growth of the consumption and the setting up of images on durg use which in the end led into penalization.
Abstract FR:
En un peu plus d'un siecle, en france, la consommation de drogues, primitivement "sans probleme" devient un peril social appelant une penalisation. Ce travail retrace la genealogie de cette problematisation. Il montre comment "l'histoire des drogues" s'inscrit dans l'histoire du xixe siecle; comment elle est liee aux evolutions intellectuelles, aux bouleversements des mentalites et aux transformations economiques qui sont la marque de ce siecle. Il analyse le processus de developpement des consommations, l'ledification d'images et de representations qui amenent la penalisation.