Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds by Lauren Slater
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A bit of an eye-opener for anyone interested in the history of psychopharmacology. I suspect this writer is a wanna-be memoirist because the information is littered with personal experiences of mental health issues and treatments, and the delivery of information takes on the quality of a literary novel, but if you can shake off the expectation that a non-fiction book needs to be all dry delivery, then this book is fascinating.
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NANCY E. SHAFFER has been an experimental psychologist (M.A., Cognitive Psychology, Rice University), a philosopher (Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Davis), and software developer. She taught history and philosophy of science at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Her philosophical work has appeared in the journal Philosophy of Science and her pop-culture philosophy website, All Things Philosophical on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: the Series.
Dis/inhbition is her first novel.
She currently resides in Tempe, Arizona.
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