Parkin, Katherine J. (1970- )

Abstract From the eighteenth century to the early-twentieth century, upper and middle-class American women were disproportionately likely to develop an opiate addiction. In an effort to understand the gendered legacy of addiction, this thesis examines women’s opiate addiction between the founding of the American Medical Association in 1847 and the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act in 1914. The formation of the American Medical Association represented a movement towards medical...