Mike Jay
Mike Jay is an author and cultural historian whose subjects include science, medicine, drugs, madness, literature, and radical politics. He contributes regularly to the London Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal. His previous books on the history of drugs include Mescaline, High Society, and The Atmosphere of Heaven.
The 19th-Century Trippers Who Probed the Mind
In the age of self-experiment, scientists took mind-altering drugs to test the limits of subjectivity.
May 10, 2023
