1927 BERINGER, Kurt (1893 – 1949)
Der Meskalinrausch. Seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise.
The most comprehensive treatise on peyote and its active agent, mescaline, which was synthesized in 1919.
GMN 2086.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2567
1970 AYD, Frank J. Jr. (1920 – 2008); BLACKWELL, Barry (1934 – )
Discoveries in biological psychiatry.
Proceedings of an international symposium sponsored by the Taylor Manor Hospital in Baltimore in 1970, including first person accounts by those who discovered the original drugs in each of the major categories of psyc…
GMN 7010 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9176
1971 MARRIOTT, Alice Lee (1910 – 1992); RACHLIN, Carol King (1919 – 2013)
Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.
"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…
GMN 10857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13053
1971 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
GMN 10858 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13054
1973 HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.
Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".
GMN 10735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12929
1974 SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – )
Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.
Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…
GMN 7009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9175
1984 JOHNSON, F. Neil
The history of lithium therapy.
GMN 2068.20 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2471
1989 ESCOHOTADO, Antonio (1941 – )
Historia general de las drogas.
The following works were issued separately and added as appendices to later editions: El libro de los venenos (1990), Para una fenomenología de las drogas (1992) and Aprendiendo de las drogas (1995). English translati…
GMN 10757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12953
1993 WILBERT, Johannes
Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.
GMN 9017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11196
2002 HEALEY, David
The creation of psychopharmacology
GMN 8304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10480
2004 DIKÖTTER, Frank (1961 – ); LAAMANN, Lars Peter; XUN, Zhou
Narcotic culture: A history of drugs in China.
GMN 10759 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12955
2007 LÓPEZ-MUÑOZ, Francisco; ALAMO GONZÁLEZ, Cecilio
Historia de la psicofarmacologia. 3 vols.
English translation, edited by Edward F. Domino, as History of psychopharmacology. 4 vols. Arlington, MA: NPP Books, 2014.
GMN 7141 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9308
2008 RASMUSSEN, Nicolas (1962 – )
On speed: The many lives of amphetamine.
GMN 7426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9598
2008 TONE, Andrea (1964 – )
The age of anxiety: A history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers.
GMN 13390 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15661
2009 SHORTER, Edward (1941 – )
Before Prozac: The troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry.
GMN 9783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11971
2019 DUVALL, Chris S.
The African roots of marijuana.
"After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereot…
GMN 12844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15091
