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  • Managing Madness

    Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada

    The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century.Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Facing Eugenics

    Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice

    by Erika Dyck ...
    Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies and medical practices on shaping our understanding of contemporary reproductive rights. The book ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Psychedelic Psychiatry

    LSD from Clinic to Campus

    by Erika Dyck ...
    LSD's short but colorful history in North America carries with it the distinct cachet of counterculture and government experimentation. The truth about this mind-altering chemical cocktail is far more complex—and less controversial—than generally believed.Psychedelic Psychiatry is the tale of medical researchers working to understand LSD’s therapeutic properties just as escalating anxieties about ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Challenging Choices

    Canada's Population Control in the 1970s

    Series Book 55 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed. At the same time, a transnational conversation about the "population bomb" that threatened global famine caused by overpopulation embraced birth ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Women and Psychedelics

    Uncovering Invisible Voices

    This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics.While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history, exploring some of the significant ways that women have contributed to psychedelic knowledge.Blending historical and anthropological approaches with a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Expanding Mindscapes

    A Global History of Psychedelics

    Edited by Erika Dyck, Chris Elcock ...
    The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers.Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 29 No. 1, 2018

    Series Book 29 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The educational histories of mid-nineteenth century British-Métis students illuminate the transnational travels of British-Métis students and their roles in reifying and challenging British-imperial norms about race, class, and gender in the British Empire. In this paper, photographic and object-based artifacts are interwoven with family correspondence and other archival documents to explore the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Locating Health

    Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health

    Series series Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
    The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented – each discipline having a long tradition of engaging with these concepts. The resulting dialogue should produce a new layer of methodology, enhancing both fields. ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Psychedelic Prophets

    The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond

    Series Book 48 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Humphry Osmond (1917-2004) was a British-trained psychiatrist interested in the biological nature of mental illness and the potential for psychedelic drugs to treat psychoses, especially schizophrenia. In 1953, Huxley sent an appreciative note to Osmond about an ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Psychedelic Prophets

    The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond

    Series Book 48 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Humphry Osmond (1917-2004) was a British-trained psychiatrist interested in the biological nature of mental illness and the potential for psychedelic drugs to treat psychoses, especially schizophrenia. In 1953, Huxley sent an appreciative note to Osmond about an ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • A Culture's Catalyst

    Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada

    by Fannie Kahan ...
    In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church of Canada.Inspired by their experience, they wrote a series of essays explaining and defending the consumption of peyote and the practice of peyotism. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Women and Psychedelics

    Uncovering Invisible Voices (A Chacruna Anthology)

    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May, Abigail Reno ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 42 min

    This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics.While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history, exploring some of the significant ways that women have contributed to psychedelic knowledge.Blending historical and anthropological approaches with a ... Read more

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