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High Society Mike Jay

High Society By Mike Jay

High Society by Mike Jay


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Summary

Explores the spectrum of drug use across the globe and throughout history, from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals.

High Society Summary

High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture by Mike Jay

High Society explores the spectrum of drug use across the globe and throughout history, from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals. Designed to accompany the 2010 Wellcome Collection exhibition, and beautifully illustrated with rarely seen material from the museum's collections, this striking, lyrical book puts its controversial subject into the widest possible context.

About Mike Jay

Mike Jay has written widely on the cultural history of science, medicine and the mind. His books include The Influencing Machine, The Story of James Tilly Matthews and his Confinement in Eighteenth-century Bedlam and High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and Culture. He reviews regularly for The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. This Way Madness Lies was written in conjunction with the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', which he co-curated for the Wellcome Collection in London. He is a research affiliate of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London and a trustee of the Bethlem Art and History Collection.

Additional information

GOR003094001
9780500251720
050025172X
High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture by Mike Jay
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
20101101
192
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