| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, color maps |
| Contents |
I. Evaluating Evidence/Experience -- 1. Nectar of the Blue Goddess: A Living Tradition of Soma Consumption In West Bengal, India -- 2. Mescaline, Between Psychopathology and Phenomenology: Sartre and Experimentation In 1930s France -- 3. Women, Mental Illness, and Psychedelic Therapy In Postwar France -- 4. Milan Hausner, the Sadská Clinic, and the Fate of Lsd Psychotherapy In Communist Czechoslovakia -- 5. Remembering to Forget: How the UK Disappeared from the Psychedelic Map |
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6. Early Experimental LSD Cultures In the Clinic -- II. Global Networks of Psychedelic Knowledge -- 7. From Rubber Adulterant to Ceremonial Psychedelic: Voacanga Africana In the Transnational Imagination, 1894-2018 -- 8. From Bwiti to Ibogaine and Back: A Transnational History of Tabernanthe Iboga -- 9. Psychotropic Drugs from and In the Fields: Rural Roots and Collective Effects of LSD -- 10. The First Applications of LSD-25 In South America (1954-1959) -- 11. "I Am a Scientist!" Roger Heim's Interdisciplinary and Transnational Research on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms (and the Problem of Divination) |
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12. Beatitude, Dread, and Mother-Blaming: the Origins of Clinical Theology, from India to England and Canada -- 13. Psychedelics, Political Radicalism, and Transnational Acid-Anarchism In the 1970s -- III. Psychedelics as Cultural Phenomena -- 14. "Video Is as Powerful as LSD": Electronics and Psychedelics as Technologies of Consciousness -- 15. From Psychiatric Clinics to Magical Center: LSD In the Netherlands -- 16. Among Doctors, Artists, and Police: The History of LSD In Brazil -- 17. Psychedelics In Israel: A Brief History |
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18. Did the Master's Tools Dismantle the Master's House? Anti-Psychiatry, Robin Farquharson, and Acid Anarchism -- 19. Becoming Modern In China with an Indigenous Amazonian Psychedelic Brew -- 20. Tripping In Karachi: Exploring the Intersection of Gender and Its Fluidity Through Psychedelic Substances -- Conclusion: The Future of Psychedelic History -- Epilogue: A Global History of Psychedelics -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Explores the diverse history of psychedelics as they appealed to a post-war generation of thinkers, who drew from different traditions and ideologies"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 16, 2024) |
| Subject |
Hallucinogenic drugs -- History -- 20th century
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LSD (Drug) -- History -- 20th century
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Hallucinogenic drugs
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LSD (Drug)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dyck, Erika, editor.
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Elcock, Chris, editor.
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| LC no. |
2022059917 |
| ISBN |
9780262376891 |
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026237689X |
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9780262376907 |
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0262376903 |
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