Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7

"National Bureau of Economic Research."These papers were presented at the seventh annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research meeting held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2003.This series from the NBER presents new research by leading economists on current health care policy issues. The papers in this seventh volume, originally presented at the annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research co…

The creative brain :myths and truths

"A nuanced, science-based understanding of the creative mind, one that punctures many (but not all) of the standard myths that obscure this perennial topic"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Expanding mindscapes :a global history of psychedelics

The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers. Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editor…

American trip :set, setting, and the psychedelic experience in the Twentieth …

"Do drugs produce fixed, predictable effects or are their effects a product of society and culture? American Trip explores this question, presenting the most comprehensive description of mid-twentieth-century hallucinogenic drug research thus far. American Trip follows seven different mid-twentieth-century schools of psychedelic research including the military, the psychotherapeutic, the spirit…

Phytocosmetics and Phytopharmaceuticals from African Medicinal Plants