Joseph Christian Greer

Historians on Drugs: Toward an Empirical Historiography of Global Psychedelic Cultures

South Atlantic Quarterly April 1, 2025 Joseph Christian Greer 10 citations

Scholarship on the global history of psychedelics is divided into two rival approaches. This article analyzes these approaches, emphasizing the way in which ideological biases on both sides have stymied serious research on the use of psychedelic substances across space and time, before introducing the empirical approach as an alternative. The most prevalent view, “pharmacological Calvinism,”...