Burke on Drugs

This essay contributes to the growing body of historical research on Kenneth Burke by considering his work as a drug researcher for the Bureau of Social Hygiene in the late 1920s and early 1930s, The research he conducted under the watch of his conservative boss, Colonel Arthur Woods, reveals a resistant worker who effectively became hooked on the question of bodies and habits even as he at times explicitly rejected the aims and methods of his boss. Burke s rearticulations of efficiency and piety help show how the Bureau offered new vantages on the body, effectively broadening his critical compass.

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Work Title Burke on Drugs
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Creators
  1. Debra Hawhee
Keyword
  1. Piety
  2. Crime prevention
  3. Permanence
  4. Opium
  5. Fleas
  6. Police
  7. Musical Rhythm
  8. Political Rhetoric
  9. Poetry
  10. Gastrointestinal Agents
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Work Type Article
DOI doi:10.18113/S19G9J
Deposited February 03, 2018

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