The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug

by Weinberg,Bennett Alan

• ISBN13: 9780415927239
• ISBN10: 0415927234
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-08-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

cybercafes -- and the ultimate caffeine resource.

Author Biography

Bennett Alan Weinberg, Esq., is a medical and science writer, and a graduate of Columbia College and New York University School of Law. He has practiced law in New York and Philadelphia and served as an Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage at Temple University. In 1986 he founded his own marketing communications firm Bonnie K. Bealer is a researcher, writer, and editor. She holds degrees in psychology and anthropology from Temple University and has studied management and finance at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. She has professional experience designing and writing financial software systems

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Overview: Caffeine Encounters	xi
Prologue: The Discovery of Caffeine	xvii
PART I Caffeine in history	1	(50)
Coffee: Arabian Origins	3	(24)
Tea: Asian Origins	27	(14)
Cacao: American Origins	41	(10)
PART II europe wakes up to caffeine	51	(78)
Monks and Men-at-Arms: Europe's First Caffeine Connections	53	(8)
The Caffeine Trade Supplants the Spice Trade: Tea and Coffee Come to the West	61	(22)
The Late Adopters: Germany, Russia, and Sweden Join In	83	(12)
Judgments of History: Medical Men Debate Caffeine	95	(30)
Postscript: Why Did Caffeine Come When It Came?	125	(4)
PART III the culture of caffeine	129	(84)
Islands of Caffeine (1): Japan: The Tradition of Tea, the Novelty of Coffee	133	(14)
Islands of Caffeine (2): England: Caffeine and Empire	147	(34)
The Endless Simmer: America and the Twentieth Century Do Caffeine	181	(16)
Caffeine Culture and Le Fin de Millenaire	197	(16)
PART IV the natural history of caffeine	213	(54)
Caffeine in the Laboratory	215	(20)
Caffeine and the Plant Kingdom: ``My Vegetable Love...''	235	(32)
PART V caffeine and health	267	(50)
Caffeine and the Body: Health Effects, Reproductive Issues, and Fitness	269	(22)
Thinking Over Caffeine: Cognition, Learning, and Emotional Well-Being	291	(12)
Caffeine Dependence, Intoxication, and Toxicity	303	(14)
Epilogue: A Toast to the Future	317	(4)
Appendix A: The London Coffeehouse during the Commonwealth Restoration	321	(6)
Appendix B: Supplementary Tables	327	(5)
Appendix C: Additional Studies of Caffeine's Physical Effects	332	(10)
Appendix D: Methodological Pitfalls	342	(3)
Notes	345	(28)
References	373	(8)
Index	381