Pleasure and Panic

Introduction: Problems with Pleasures / Dan Malleck

Part 1: Popular Pleasure and Panic

1 The Transgressive Woman: Gender, Class, Alcohol and Drugs in Canada from 1850 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh

2 “To Find Out the Best Men and to Try to Get Them In”: Women, Temperance and Politics in Manchester 1873–1919 / Cynthia Belaskie

3 Youth, Drugs, and Surveillance at Manseau’s Woodstock Pop Festival / Eric Fillion

4 John Lennon, the LeDain Commission and the Rise of the Celebrity Activist / Greg Marquis

Part 2: Medicinal Pleasure and Panic

5 Manhood, Drink, and the “Medical Heresy” of U.S. Army Surgeon James Mann (1812–1816) / Renée Lafferty-Salhany

6 Medicinal Purposes: Pharmacists, Professionalism, and Liquor Laws in Victorian Ontario / Dan Malleck

7 A New Perspective on Harm Reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD Rescue Service / Christian Elcock

Part 3: The Business of Pleasure and Panic

8 Flogging a Dead Horse? Adulteration and Brewing in Nineteenth-Century England / Jonathan Reinarz

9 Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The Story of the First Chinese-Canadian Hotel Licensee in Post-Prohibition Alberta / Sarah Hamill

10 The Rise of the “Big Three”: The Emergence of a Canadian Brewing Oligopoly, 1945–1962 / Mathew J. Bellamy

Index