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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Danielle GiffortPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781517906719ISBN 10: 1517906717 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 21 July 2020 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Preface: The Politics of Ecstasy Introduction: Set and Setting 1. Playing the Science Game: Psychedelic Therapy Meets the Scientific Method 2. Take LSD and See: Acid-Dropping Scientists and the Credibility of Firsthand Experience 3. The Chemical Key: Unlocking the Black Box of the Psychedelic Experience 4. Who Controls Your Cortex? Moral Panic and the Politicization of Psychedelic Drugs 5. Turn On, Tune In, and Go to the Bake Sale: Tensions between Mainstream Science and the Psychedelic Counterculture Conclusion: Why? Why Not? Some Final Words on the Ghost of Timothy Leary in the Psychedelic Renaissance Acknowledgments Appendix: Methods Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""How does science plow forward in the face of stigma and skepticism? In this captivating account brimming with fascinating episodes, Danielle Giffort shows how a new generation of mental health researchers seeks to bring psychedelic drugs out of the shadows as respectable therapies—and how they ward off the specters of the countercultural past.""—Steven Epstein, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge ""Psychedelic medicine has the potential to transform psychiatry, but its advancement is threatened by unique social and legal challenges. Acid Revival provides an inside look at how the researchers conducting this controversial work present themselves as legitimate scientists. In a series of colorful stories, Danielle Giffort explains the role that cultural narrative and performance play in the production of expertise. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding which drugs are deemed medically useful and why.""—Joanna Kempner, author of Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health ""Acid Revival will appeal to those interested in psychedelic research past and present. The candid interviews the book offers makes it a unique source.""—Psymposia ""The book will make informative and accessible reading in undergraduate and graduate courses on the field of mental health and the sociology of science.""—Oxford Academic ""Acid Revival will no doubt become a reference point for those interested in psychiatry’s varied attempts to reinvent itself as it has sought to conquer what Whooley (2019) has called its stubborn ‘ignorance.’""—Social Forces ""A thorough case study relevant to the history of science.""—Isis Journal ""Acid Revival is an engaging and accessible read for anyone interested in scientific expertise or psychedelic science and its history. Giffort’s timely focus on psychedelic expertise provides a useful framework that science studies scholars can build on.""—Journal of Behavioral Sciences" How does science plow forward in the face of stigma and skepticism? In this captivating account brimming with fascinating episodes, Danielle Giffort shows how a new generation of mental health researchers seeks to bring psychedelic drugs out of the shadows as respectable therapies-and how they ward off the specters of the countercultural past. -Steven Epstein, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge Psychedelic medicine has the potential to transform psychiatry, but its advancement is threatened by unique social and legal challenges. Acid Revival provides an inside look at how the researchers conducting this controversial work present themselves as legitimate scientists. In a series of colorful stories, Danielle Giffort explains the role that cultural narrative and performance play in the production of expertise. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding which drugs are deemed medically useful and why. -Joanna Kempner, author of Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health How does science plow forward in the face of stigma and skepticism? In this captivating account brimming with fascinating episodes, Danielle Giffort shows how a new generation of mental health researchers seeks to bring psychedelic drugs out of the shadows as respectable therapies-and how they ward off the specters of the countercultural past. -Steven Epstein, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge Psychedelic medicine has the potential to transform psychiatry, but its advancement is threatened by unique social and legal challenges. Acid Revival provides an inside look at how the researchers conducting this controversial work present themselves as legitimate scientists. In a series of colorful stories, Danielle Giffort explains the role that cultural narrative and performance play in the production of expertise. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding which drugs are deemed medically useful and why. -Joanna Kempner, author of Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health Acid Revival will appeal to those interested in psychedelic research past and present. The candid interviews the book offers makes it a unique source. -Psymposia The book will make informative and accessible reading in undergraduate and graduate courses on the field of mental health and the sociology of science. -Oxford Academic Acid Revival will no doubt become a reference point for those interested in psychiatry's varied attempts to reinvent itself as it has sought to conquer what Whooley (2019) has called its stubborn 'ignorance.' -Social Forces A thorough case study relevant to the history of science. -Isis Journal Acid Revival is an engaging and accessible read for anyone interested in scientific expertise or psychedelic science and its history. Giffort's timely focus on psychedelic expertise provides a useful framework that science studies scholars can build on. -Journal of Behavioral Sciences Author InformationDanielle Giffort is assistant professor of medical sociology at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. 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