Jonathan D Moreno

Acid Brothers: Henry Beecher, Timothy Leary, and the psychedelic of the century.

Perspectives in biology and medicine 2016 Jonathan D Moreno 15 citations

Henry Knowles Beecher, an icon of human research ethics, and Timothy Francis Leary, a guru of the counterculture, are bound together in history by the synthetic hallucinogen lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Both were associated with Harvard University during a critical period in their careers and of drastic social change. To all appearances the first was a paragon of the establishment and a...