@book{2025:embrey:coca_and_t,
title = {Coca and the Victorians: From Botanical Curiosity to Regulated Drug, 1835–1912},
year = {2025},
note = {The South American coca plant was established in 19th-century Britain
as a medical product before it became a globally restricted drug.
Drawing on botanical, economic, pharmaceutical, social, and political
perspectives, Kim Embrey analyses how the use and perception of coca
changed as it was transferred to Europe. In a process of »cultural
dissimilation«, coca was not simply adopted, but embedded into new
medical, social, and scientific contexts. The study shows how a plant
from the Andes was repositioned in British modernity.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {transcript},
address = {Bielefeld},
series = {Histoire},
volume = {244},
author = {Embrey, Kim}
}