Scholars taking drugs (in the sense of opium, LSD etc.).

Forwarded on behalf of Oliver Hochadel oliver.hochadel@univie.ac.at


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Dear colleagues


I am writing a journalistic piece on scientists (or scholars more

general) taking drugs (in the sense of opium, LSD etc.).


There are probably two categories:

1. Scholars taking drugs as part of their research on them

(Sigmund Freud, Albert Hoffman, Sertürner, Humphry Davy,

ethnobotanists etc.)

and

2. Scholars taking drugs for other reasons (pain relief, being able

to work more etc.) such as John Tyndall, Thomas Huxley, Jean-Paul

Sartre etc.).


I am interested in both.

I would be grateful for any further suggestions or hints. This is

for the Austrian science magazine heureka! (s. www.heurekablog.at)


Thanking you


Oliver Hochadel


Dr. Oliver Hochadel

Centre d'Estudis d'Història de la Ciència (CEHIC)

Facultat de Ciències - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

08193 Bellaterra

Spain

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