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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 ; edited by S. Lock, L.A. Reynolds, and E.M. Tansey.

Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.
Descriptionviii, 244 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorLock, Stephen.
Other author/creatorReynolds, L. A.
Other author/creatorTansey, E. M.
Other author/creatorWellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Series Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine. ^A240634
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
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