Tripping on Utopia - Margaret Mead, The Cold War and the Birth of Psychedelics

Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life's mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure.

Info autore

Benjamin Breen is the author of The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade, winner of the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. He is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.

Riassunto

Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life's mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure.

Prefazione

A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Benjamin Breen
• Editore: Bonnier Zaffre
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 25.04.2024
• EAN: 9781804441091
• ISBN: 978-1-80444-109-1
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 167 mm x 244 mm x 35 mm
• Peso: 594 g
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Experimental Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, Impact of science and technology on society, Biography: science, technology & medicine, c 1940 to c 1949, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Drug-Induced States