Sarah Mars BA PhD
- Currently in San Francisco
- T: 020 7927 2434
After studying undergraduate history at Cambridge I worked on illicit drug policies at the British Medical Association and Royal College of Psychiatrists. This led to an ESRC funded project and PhD at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researching the history of drug policy, specifically the public and private treatment of addiction in England from 1970-1999. I also investigated drug user activism in the UK with support from the Nuffield Foundation. After moving to San Francisco I gained a Legacy Postdoctoral Fellowship in tobacco control and health policy at the University of California, San Francisco. I have established seminar series in London and San Francisco on substance use and policy and am interested in international and cross-substance comparisons.
Affiliation
Research
I am currently working on a book on the history of the treatment of addiction for Palgrave Macmillan.
Research areas
- Clinical guidelines
- Health policy
- Research : policy relationship
- Substance abuse
- Tobacco control
Disciplines
- History
- Policy analysis
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Selected publications
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Meanings & Motives: Experts Debating Tobacco Addiction.
Mars, S.G.; Ling, P.M.;
Am J Public Health, 2008; 98(10):1793-802
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The troublesome legacy of Commissioner Lin. The opium trade and opium suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s to 1920s
Mars, S.
Addiction, 2005; :414
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Cannabis Britannica: empire, trade, and prohibition 1800-1928
Mars, S.
Medical History, 2005; 49(2):231-232
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Peer Pressure and Imposed Consensus: The Making of the 1984 'Guidelines of Good Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Drug Misuse'
Mars, S.
in 'Making Health Policy: Networks in Research and Policy Since 1945' Berridge, V.(2005) Rodopi (Amsterdam) :149-182
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History of addictions.
Berridge, V.; Mars, S.;
J Epidemiol Community Health , 2004; 58 (9 ):747-50
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Drugs - therapy and pleasure
Mars, S.; Berridge, V.
in 'From Victoria to Viagra:150 years of medical progress' (2003) Wellcome Trust (London) :46-48
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Mental illness: a handbook for carers
Ramsay, R.; Gerada, C.; Mars, S.; Szmukler, G.
Jessica Kingsley (London) 2001
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