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Free Radicals

Mike Jay

The story of the circle of scientists, poets and dissidents who discovered laughing gas—and forever changed our understanding of the mind [lees verder]

Psychonauts

Mike Jay

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind [lees verder]

Unfortunate Colonel Despard

Mike Jay

The remarkable life of Colonel Edward Despard, comrade-in-arms of Nelson and a man who championed the rights of freed slaves, but who was executed in Britain for high treason in 1803. [lees verder]

This Way Madness Lies

Mike Jay

Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which … [lees verder]