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Richard Barnett

Barnett is finishing his doctorate at The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, in London.

The Selborne pioneer

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The life of a gentleman and a scholar.

The cult of pharmacology & Intoxication in mythology

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"the distinction between clinical medicines and drugs of addiction is a social construct and responsible for the Ballardian car-crash of modern attitudes towards drugs."

The Black Death 1346-1353

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"Benedictow talks about 'the intense religious mind of medieval man', as though the entire population of Europe could be represented by one muddy peasant with a bubo and a crucifix."