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Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire from UC Santa Cruz history professor Benjamin Breen. Also: using AI in research and teaching.
Pre-order "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science"
Coming January, 2024, from Grand Central. I'd be very grateful if you considered pre-ordering it!
Order "The Age of Intoxication"
My first book, on the early modern global drug trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Res Obscura
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Res Obscura
Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire from UC Santa Cruz history professor Benjamin Breen. Also: using AI in research and teaching.
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