Discusses the use of drugs in ancient Greece and Rome, including the historical social attitudes behind drug use and how they may have led to artistic and cultural advances in these civilizations.
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"John M ("Mickey") Nardo, in his retirement, practiced psychiatry in a volunteer clinic in the Appalachian hills of Georgia. "I worked in the clinics today," he wrote in 2012. "In the morning, I saw adults - a lot of them. I had three patients where the central issue was unrecog…
"John M ("Mickey") Nardo, in his retirement, practiced psychiatry in a volunteer clinic in the Appalachian hills of Georgia. "I worked in the clinics today," he wrote in 2012. "In the morning, I saw adults - a lot of them. I had three patients where the central issue was unrecog…
Jonathan Michel Metzl, a psychiatrist and women's studies scholar, shows that there's a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Metzl provides a cultural history of psychiatric "wonder drugs" from the 1950's to the early twenty-first cen…
Jonathan Michel Metzl, a psychiatrist and women's studies scholar, shows that there's a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Metzl provides a cultural history of psychiatric "wonder drugs" from the 1950's to the early twenty-first cen…
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture.
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture.
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture.
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture.
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture. ""Morphine," writes Richard J. Miller, "is the most significant chemical …