Pleasure and Panic

Dan Malleck is a professor of health sciences at Brock University, where he also serves as director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. He is the former editor-in-chief of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal for over a decade. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh is a professor of history at Vancouver Island University. She is currently the co-editor of Gender & History. Dan Malleck and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh are also the co-editors of Consuming Modernity: Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom.Contributors: Cynthia Belaskie, Mathew J. Bellamy, Christian Elcock, Eric Fillion, Sarah Hamill, Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Renée Lafferty-Salhany, Dan Malleck, Greg Marquis, Jonathan Reinarz.

• Introduction: Problems with Pleasures / Dan MalleckPart 1: Popular Pleasure and Panic1 The Transgressive Woman: Gender, Class, Alcohol and Drugs in Canada from 1850 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh2 "To Find Out the Best Men and to Try to Get Them In": Women, Temperance and Politics in Manchester 1873–1919 / Cynthia Belaskie3 Youth, Drugs, and Surveillance at Manseau's Woodstock Pop Festival / Eric Fillion4 John Lennon, the LeDain Commission and the Rise of the Celebrity Activist / Greg MarquisPart 2: Medicinal Pleasure and Panic5 Manhood, Drink, and the "Medical Heresy" of U.S. Army Surgeon James Mann (1812–1816) / Renée Lafferty-Salhany6 Medicinal Purposes: Pharmacists, Professionalism, and Liquor Laws in Victorian Ontario / Dan Malleck7 A New Perspective on Harm Reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD Rescue Service / Christian ElcockPart 3: The Business of Pleasure and Panic8 Flogging a Dead Horse? Adulteration and Brewing in Nineteenth-Century England / Jonathan Reinarz9 Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The Story of the First Chinese-Canadian Hotel Licensee in Post-Prohibition Alberta / Sarah Hamill10 The Rise of the "Big Three": The Emergence of a Canadian Brewing Oligopoly, 1945–1962 / Mathew J. BellamyIndex

[Pleasure and Panic] is a compilation of fascinating studies that examine how the regulation and use of addictive substances have informed social movements, medical innovations, marketing, and even cultural identity.- Dave Hazzan (Literary Review of Canada) "Despite the primarily Canadian focus and origins of this collection, there is much here for anyone broadly interested in the history of intoxicants."- David Adler, Bournemouth University (The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs) Taken together, this collection [of essays] provides a valuable "state of the field," especially with regards to the history of drugs and alcohol in the Canadian context. - Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph (Canadian Journal of Health History)