Danielle Giffort

Acid Revival

The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy

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Produktbeschreibung

Danielle Giffort examines how a new generation of researchers and their allies are working to rehabilitate psychedelic drugs and usher in a new era of psychedelic medicine. This colorful and accessible history of the rise, fall, and reemergence of psychedelic medicine is infused with intriguing narratives and personalities—a story for popular science aficionados as well as for scholars of the history of science and medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 138mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781517906726
• ISBN-10: 1517906725
• Artikelnr.: 59917700

Autorenporträt

Danielle Giffort is a Senior User Experience Researcher at Ipsos.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface: The Politics of Ecstasy
Introduction: Set and Setting
1. Playing the Science Game: Psychedelic Therapy Meets the Scientific
Method
2. Take LSD and See: Acid-Dropping Scientists and the Credibility of
Firsthand Experience
3. The Chemical Key: Unlocking the Black Box of the Psychedelic Experience
4. Who Controls Your Cortex? Moral Panic and the Politicization of
Psychedelic Drugs
5. Turn On, Tune In, and Go to the Bake Sale: Tensions between Mainstream
Science and the Psychedelic Counterculture 
Conclusion: Why? Why Not? Some Final Words on the Ghost of Timothy Leary in
the Psychedelic Renaissance
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Methods
Notes
Bibliography
Index