Article ID: CBB394945740

Doctors on Drugs: Medical Professionals and the Proliferation of Morphine Addiction in Nineteenth-Century France (2016)

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This article examines doctors’ role in the spread of morphine addiction, or morphinomanie, in late nineteenth-century France and the impact of morphine’s use and abuse on medical professionalisation. Although in the 1860s and 1870s doctors had treated morphine as a sort of analgesic panacea, by the early 1880s they began to recognise morphine addiction as a serious social crisis. In a competitive medical marketplace, individual doctors used morphine’s analgesic power to enhance their own credibility in the eyes of their patients. However, this same substance also threatened the legitimacy of the medical profession, as doctors and patients alike succumbed to the new iatrogenic pathology of morphinomanie.

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Authors & Contributors
Black, Sara E.
Hernández Saenz, Luz María
Martin Robert
Nencini, Paolo
Guba, David A., Jr.
Varón-Carvajal, Lisette
Concepts
Physicians; doctors
Professions and professionalization
Medicine
Drug use
Addictive behavior
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Places
France
United States
Mexico
Paris (France)
Bern (Switzerland)
Southern states (U.S.)
Institutions
University of Paris V
American Medical Association
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