HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Coffee Culture, Caffeine, Energizer
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How have changes in our society shaped our understanding of. Impact is a sliver of why we treat the drug, always profoundly a social thing caffeine: caffeine special status as harmless drug threatened in near future. Sufis walking goats, goats consumed coffee beans, goats couldn"t sit still, making noise. Tea: wasn"t understood as energizer, associated with opposite effect, relaxing, calming, europeans identify tea as valuable commodity. First introduced to britain, really expensive, its effects were too strong for some types of people, Britain"s a very class stratified society, there was a view of the poor as people deserving of their lot and child like, weren"t capable of handling tea only able to get it at some aristocrats castle. Simpler than making coffee: national drink of britain in 18/19 century, tea became central to the lives of many poor people in britain because you can extend it.