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On speed [electronic resource] : the many lives of amphetamine / Nicolas Rasmussen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2008.Description: ix, 352 p., [38] p. of plates : illOther title:
  • Many lives of amphetamine
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.29/90973 22
LOC classification:
  • RM666.A493 R37 2008eb
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Contents:
The new sensation -- Benzedrine : the making of a modern medicine -- Speed and total war -- Bootleggers, beatniks, and benzedrine benders -- A bromide for the atomic age -- Amphetamine and the go-go years -- Amphetamine's decline : from mental medicine to social disease -- Fast forward : still on speed, 1971 to today.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-347) and index.

The new sensation -- Benzedrine : the making of a modern medicine -- Speed and total war -- Bootleggers, beatniks, and benzedrine benders -- A bromide for the atomic age -- Amphetamine and the go-go years -- Amphetamine's decline : from mental medicine to social disease -- Fast forward : still on speed, 1971 to today.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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