| Description |
1 online resource (226 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Maps of the Mind
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Maps of the mind.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface and acknowledgements -- [ch.] 1. Mists of the mind -- [ch.] 2. Matters of doctrine -- [ch.] 3. Making the mind -- [ch.] 4. Neuronal discourse -- [ch.] 5. Nostri plena laboris -- [ch.] 6. An abyss yawns -- [ch.] 7. Making memory -- [ch.] 8. Lost truth and its restitution -- [ch.] 9. Funhouse mirrors -- [ch.] 10. Pharmacology of the infinite -- [ch.] 11. Drug driven -- Further readings -- Index. |
| Summary |
Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the ""hair-of-the-dog"" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, ""a grand excavation of drug myth."" Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychopharmacology.
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Psychopharmacology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Regan, Ciaran. Intoxicating minds. New York : Columbia University Press, 2001 0231120168 (DLC) 2001028078 (OCoLC)45917270 |
| ISBN |
9780231533119 (electronic book) |
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023153311X (electronic book) |
| Music No. |
EB00662746 Recorded Books |
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