Book Reviews


Canadian Journal of Health History

Review of Clare Griffin’s Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade in Early Modern Russia.



The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs

Review of Jesse Donaldson and Erika Dyck’s The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital.


Cover of Heroin: An Illustrated History by Susan Boyd

Canadian Historical Review

Review of Susan Boyd’s Heroin: An Illustrated History.


Canadian Journal of Health History

Review of Sara E. Black, Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century.


University of Toronto Quarterly

Review of Lucas Richert, Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs.


B.C. Studies

Review of Jesse Donaldson, Fool’s Gold: The Life and Legacy of Vancouver’s Official Town Fool.


Left History

Review of Linda Mahood, Thumbing a Ride: Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada.


Past Tense

Review of Daniel A. Guba, Jr., Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth Century France


Canadian Historical Review

Review of Daniel J. Robinson, Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930-1975.


Social History/Histoire Sociale

Review of Greg Marquis, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool.