...Liat Kozma In the late 1920s and early 1930s, British and Egyptian officials, medical doctors, and the Egyptian press reiterated that country was plagued by “white drugs”: cocaine and heroin. Kozma’s article demonstrates how, in addition to presenting drug consumption as a social problem, discourse...

...Leyla Rouhi The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 Rudi Mathee Washington, DC: Mage, 2005 xvii + 346 pp., $39.50 (cloth) Duke University Press 2006...

... with these ethical dilemmas during the HIV-AIDS pandemic at the end of the twentieth century, when global South governments led by Nelson Mandela fought multinational pharmaceutical corporations for the right to essential life-saving drugs. Can the same strategies be mobilized to deal with inequalities...

... exports to the insatiable drug markets of Western to Pakistan’s February 8 deportation of Yusuf Ramzi Europe and America. The Mujahideen used the or to the United States’ efforts to extradite the pow...

...- bismuth ointments. Even this new combination rhoids, because it is a popular belief that this of drugs did not produce complete healing. In affl iction is caused by anal sexual intercourse. 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Various...

... and in Saudi Arabia and smaller Gulf states.’ Pakistan’s military drug trade are some of the costs of the military regime’s transactions with Saudi Arabia alone run into millions of reckless involvement in the Afghan civil war which will dollars. In 1981 the Saudis made a $300 million down pay...

... populations, and drug traf- accord with the above-mentioned contention, the and ficking and threatens the direct security of these drawing on the work of Carment and James, South Africa states.22 Facing the danger of the Afghan civil that transnational kinship...

..., and discursively some of what passes as corruption—and which needs paradoxically a quite capable state—is constituted by excessively well-organized crime syndicates that trespass across state-private boundaries (large-scale oil theft, the army and drug trafficking, banks and money laundering, and so on). The scale...

... of strictly defi ned gender roles Bates College based on males being heads of households, tried to doi 10.1215/1089201x-2006-036 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Throughout, Mathee outlines the broad shape of Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500–1900...

... of strictly defi ned gender roles Bates College based on males being heads of households, tried to doi 10.1215/1089201x-2006-036 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Throughout, Mathee outlines the broad shape of Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500–1900...

... of strictly defi ned gender roles Bates College based on males being heads of households, tried to doi 10.1215/1089201x-2006-036 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Throughout, Mathee outlines the broad shape of Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500–1900...

... of strictly defi ned gender roles Bates College based on males being heads of households, tried to doi 10.1215/1089201x-2006-036 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Throughout, Mathee outlines the broad shape of Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500–1900...

... of strictly defi ned gender roles Bates College based on males being heads of households, tried to doi 10.1215/1089201x-2006-036 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Throughout, Mathee outlines the broad shape of Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500–1900...

... of strictly defi ned gender roles Bates College based on males being heads of households, tried to doi 10.1215/1089201x-2006-036 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Throughout, Mathee outlines the broad shape of Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500–1900...

... of strictly defi ned gender roles Bates College based on males being heads of households, tried to doi 10.1215/1089201x-2006-036 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Throughout, Mathee outlines the broad shape of Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500–1900...

... of strictly defi ned gender roles Bates College based on males being heads of households, tried to doi 10.1215/1089201x-2006-036 The Pursuit of Pleasure: Throughout, Mathee outlines the broad shape of Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500–1900...

..., on the province’s powers to regulate the prohibi- the provincial government had powers to regulate tion of import and export of intoxicating liquor interprovincial trade by prohibiting the import of and narcotic drugs. The matter was eventually intoxicating liquor and drugs, which allowed the resolved...

... and African Studies (hereafter BSOAS), 34 (1971): 331  –  62. 329 of the use of narcotic drugs for medicinal, thera- questioned whether Persians were building any 330 peutic, and ritualistic...

... drugged or discrediting her testimony. In another case, a man intoxicated, and in about a third of the cases, they brought his pregnant sister to the police station, and said that they had been seduced by the promise of she, in turn, accused a shaykh of entering her house a marriage or other forms...

..., and the epistemic ambiguities of testing and international reporting at once reveal and occlude contemporary national and international networks of information and disease control. Across the Global South, for instance, the shortages of drugs and medical supplies have highlighted resource inequalities and aid...