Cocaine: How 'Miracle Drug' Nearly Destroyed Sigmund Freud, William Halsted
Anatomy of an Addiction: http://to.pbs.org/qUraZm In "An Anatomy of Addiction," medical historian Howard Markel details the cocaine addictions of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted, both...
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bjbjLULU JEFFREY BROWN: Now, a tale of cocaine addiction involving two leading figures in the history of medicine. NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser has our book conversation. BETTY ANN BOWSER: Sigmund Freud and William Halsted were two medical revolutionaries, Freud, the well-known father of psychoanalysis, Halsted, the less well-known father of modern surgery. But just beneath the black-and-white success, there's another story. Both men shared a blinding addiction to cocaine. In a new book called "An Anatomy of Addiction," pediatrician Howard Markel tells how the two tried to ward off self-destruction in the quest for knowledge. We caught up Markel at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where Halsted connected some of his greatest wo...
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bjbjLULU JEFFREY BROWN: Now, a tale of cocaine addiction involving two leading figures in the history of medicine. NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser has our book conversation. BETTY ANN BOWSER: Sigmund Freud and William Halsted were two medical revolutionaries, Freud, the well-known father of psychoanalysis, Halsted, the less well-known father of modern surgery. But just beneath the black-and-white success, there's another story. Both men shared a blinding addiction to cocaine. In a new book called "An Anatomy of Addiction," pediatrician Howard Markel tells how the two tried to ward off self-destruction in the quest for knowledge. We caught up Markel at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where Halsted connected some of his greatest wo...
