Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors--Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon--showing how their powerful addictions to Cocaine shaped their enormous contributions to psychology and medicine.
Markel is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan..
His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The New England Journal of Medicine , and he is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio.
His books include Quarantine!, When Germs Travel, and An Anatomy of Addiction.
Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.
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Here is the full story, long overlooked, told in its rich historical context.
One became the father of psychoanalysis; the other, of modern surgery.
Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder drug, and how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it--or because of it.
An Anatomy of Addiction tells the tragic and heroic story of each man, accidentally struck down in his prime by an insidious malady: tragic because of the time, relationships, and health Cocaine forced each to squander; heroic in the intense battle each man waged to overcome his affliction.
When Freud and Halsted began their experiments with Cocaine in the 1880s, neither they, nor their colleagues, had any idea of the drug\'s potential to dominate and endanger their lives.
Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors--Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon--showing how their powerful addictions to Cocaine shaped their enormous contributions to psychology and medicine
