Books by Mike Jay and Complete Book Reviews

Mike Jay, Author . Yale Univ. $30 (294p) ISBN 978-0-300-12439-2
In this brilliantly researched and written study, British medical historian Jay (The Air Loom Gang ) tells the story of Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808), who established a “Pneumatic Institution” near Bristol to test his theories about...
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Mike Jay, Author . Four Walls Eight Windows $24 (306p) ISBN 978-1-56858-297-9
Jay (Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century ) weaves a miscarriage-of-justice drama around the shadowy case of James Tilly Matthews, a smalltime political operative in the tumultuous aftermath of the French Revolution, who was detained...
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Mike Jay. Yale Univ, $32.50 (320p) ISBN 978-0-300-25794-6
Before drugs were deemed to be a social scourge, they were part of a long tradition of experimentation practiced by scientists, artists, and average Joes, contends journalist Jay (Mescaline) in this eye-opening entry. The author argues that...
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