Gerald Holton and William Blanpied (editors), Science and its public; the changing relationship, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxv, 289 [no price stated].
Year: 1977
Type: article
Abstract: The Ninth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences was held in Chicago in 1973 and these books contain papers presented there; several others are planned.The first provides probably the most comprehensive survey ever published of a single drug.There are thirty-six papers, including an introduction, and they are in five groups: 'Ethnobotany and diffusion'; 'Sociocultural aspects of the traditional complex'; 'Medical, pharmacological and ethnometabolic studies'; 'Traditional usage of other psychoactive plants' such as tobacco; 'The modem complex in North America'.Throughout, there is a great deal on the history of cannabis and the book will prove to be a remarkable source of information on account of its wide range of topics, excellent index, ample documentation, and relatively modest price.It can be
Source: Medical History
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4243596120