The aristocratic vice: The medical treatment of drug addiction at the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1900
Abstract
For most of the nineteenth century, drug addicts did not constitute a deviant social group but were simply individuals guilty of a specific moral transgression. By the 1920s, however, addicts were clearly social deviants, defined by both illness and by vice, and demanded institutional isolation.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Historical and Scientific Studies
Canadian Identity and History
Publication details
- Journal / source
- PubMed
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 403–27
- Publication date
- 16 March 2026
- Language
- EN