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High Society Mike Jay

High Society By Mike Jay

High Society by Mike Jay


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Summary

Looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical world, and, the mind-bending self-experiments of early scientists. This title explores the international spectrum of drug use in cultures throughout the modern world.

High Society Summary

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

New in paperback, Mike Jays global history of intoxication looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical world, the mind-bending self-experiments of early scientists and today's war on drugs. Every society is a high society. Every day, people drink coffee on European terraces, chew betel nut in Indonesian markets, take coca leaf on Andean mountainsides and smoke tobacco in every nation on earth. This striking and lyrical book, beautifully illustrated with rarely seen paintings, photographs and engravings from the Wellcome Collection, explores the international spectrum of drug use in cultures throughout the modern world: medicines, religious sacraments, status symbols and coveted trade goods. Fascinating and highly recommended Psychedelic Press Straightforward and engaging storytelling and cool headed analysis of use of, and attitudes towards, mind-altering drugs deserves high praise for rendering a complex, controversial topic with clarity and elegance. Its also good looking quite marvellous British Medical Journal

High Society Reviews

'Fascinating and highly recommended' - Psychedelic News
'Straightforward and engaging storytelling and cool headed analysis of use of, and attitudes towards, mind-altering drugs deserves high praise for rendering a complex, controversial topic with clarity and elegance. Its also good looking quite marvellous' - British Medical Journal

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.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS A Universal Impulse High Societies The Evolution of Drugs Animal Intoxication Drugs and Shamanism Drugs and Culture The Culture of Kava The Culture of Betel Drug Prohibitions Drug Subcultures The Cultures of Ecstasy From Apothecary to Laboratory What Is a Drug? Drugs in Antiquity Renaissance Herbals Witches and Flying Ointments The Invention of Laudanum Linnaeus and the Enlightenment The First Synthetic Drugs Opium and the Romantics The Club des Haschischins Freud and Cocaine Addiction and Drug Control Mescaline{,} LSD and Beyond Drugs of the Future The Drugs Trade Drugs of the New World The Psychoactive Revolution Tobacco in China{,} Tea in Europe The Opium Wars The Anti-Opium campaign Temperance and Prohibition The War on Drugs Epilogue: The Decline of Tobacco

Additional information

GOR004425840
9780500289105
0500289107
High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture by Mike Jay
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
2012-03-05
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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