Our History

An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction — a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives — by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself.

Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows that one cannot be truly understood without the other.