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The objection will be heard that our own times are too fraught usefully to allow diversion of energies to historical study. We may plead that we have no time to tarry, that we must build the next hospital, write the research protocol, draft the new legislation. But the historian (if we pause to listen to him) forces questions such as these — what scientific truths or old wives tales, what culture bound or generation determined illusions, accidents, vanities are the actual ideas dictating all this mass of action in which we propose so hurriedly to engage?
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Edwards, G. (1972). Introductory Address Drug Dependence — Putting History on the Agenda. In: Btesh, S. (eds) Drug Abuse. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3210-7_2
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