Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health : Symposium and Witness Seminar Organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995

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Stephen Lock, Lois A. Reynolds, E. M. Tansey
Rodopi, 1998 - Medical - 244 pages
Preliminary Material --Contributors /S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey --Introduction /Stephen Lock --Webs of Drug Dependence: Towards a Political History of Tobacco /Jordan Goodman --'A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make': Religion and Science in the British Anti-Tobacco Movement, 1853-1908 /Matthew Hilton and Simon Nightingale --The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting /David Harley --Tobacco and Victorian Literature /Hugh Cockerell --Pushing the Weed: The Editorializing and Advertising of Tobacco in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1880-1958 /Peter Bartrip --The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer /Richard Doll --Science and Policy: The Case of Postwar British Smoking Policy /Virginia Berridge --Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture /Allan M. Brandt --Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians /Christopher C. Booth --Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking /Francis Avery Jones --The Story of the Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians /Charles Fletcher --ASH: Witness on Smoking /David Simpson --Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize /John Crofton --Horace Joules' Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking /Keith Ball --The History of the Norwegian Ban on Tobacco Advertising /Kjell Bjartveit --Concluding Remarks /Roy Porter --Index /S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey.
 

Contents

Professor Allan M Brandt Department of Social Medicine
39
Religion and Science
41
The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting
78
Tobacco and Victorian Literature
89
The Editorializing and Advertising
100
The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer
130
The Case of Postwar British
143
Passive Smoking Risk
164
Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians
192
Witness on Smoking
198
Witness on Smoking
208
Horace Joules Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking
214
Concluding Remarks
221
Index
229
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