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American historian of science and medicine
- Benjamin Breen (born 1985) is an American historian of science and medicine and an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Benjamin Breen (born 1985) is an American historian of science and medicine and an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His book The Age of Intoxication (2019) was awarded the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine .
Jan 18, 2024 · Associate Professor Of History Benjamin Breen. Famed anthropologist Margaret Mead and her third husband Gregory Bateson believed that LSD and other psychedelic substances could enlighten the world and help save humanity from nuclear conflagration during the Cold War.
Jan 16, 2024 · In “Tripping on Utopia,” Benjamin Breen chronicles the legendary anthropologist’s doomed effort to save the world through hallucinogens.
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Welcome I'm an associate professor of history at the UC Santa Cruz specializing in the history of science, medicine, globalization, and the impacts of technological change. My most recent book, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science, is a revisionist history of the first era of psychedelic…
Jan 12, 2024 · Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “ Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of...
short biography. Benjamin Breen is an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz and the author of two books: The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (2019) and Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (2024).
Dec 2, 2019 · Benjamin Breen is the Principle Investigator of the 2019-2020 THI research cluster Drug Histories and Futures. A past THI Digital Research Faculty Fellow (2018-2019), Breen also launches his first book this month: The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade.
