An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine - Howard Markel hype the Edgar Award–winner American Lightning

the Edgar Award–winner American Lightning

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An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine - Howard Markel hype the Edgar Award–winner American LightningFrom acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of When Germs Travel, the astonishing account of the years long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud, young, ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young, pathfinding surgeon. 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 itor because of it. One became the father of psychoanalysis; the