Assistant Professor • History and Philosophy of Science, Intoxication, Medicine, Psych and Pharma, specializing in 19th/early-20th century Germany • Book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" out at U. Chicago Presshttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3mmjzjviahs2qEveryone knows about 19th cen. opium politics. But what if 19th cen. European experimental science actually showed that opium smoking was chemically impossible? Read about this in relation to colonial knowledge exchange here: shorturl.at/tfGYu #histsky #histmed #histsci #drugsky https://shorturl.at/tfGYu23 May 2026 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmjzjviahs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3mkzc2ugjhk2fThe 'adamic' brain substance, fatty "protagon" was briefly everything. Read about how this short lived behemoth of 19th cen. brain science shaped contemporary anesthesiological theory and what it means for entity realism (OA). #HPLS #HPS #histmed #histsky #philsci https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40656-026-00735-404 May 2026 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzc2ugjhk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3mdantxpjlk2cUnbelievable to finally see it in print! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci #drugsky #medsky #scisky @uchicagopress.bsky.social https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo258300008.html25 Jan 2026 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdantxpjlk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3m4zm4bguvc2cExcited to say it will be hitting the warehouse soon! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo258300008.html07 Nov 2025 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4zm4bguvc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3ltcveb6dzc26The real time we never get back? Figuring out the first names of the authors behind obscure, 19th-century one-off papers, especially when the happen to share the same last name and first initial with someone WAY more famous.06 Jul 2025 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltcveb6dzc26https://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3llwkqilrfs2mMy book has a cover and is now available for pre-order! https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo258300008.html03 Apr 2025 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3llwkqilrfs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3lcwog3wwdk2rThough surely familiar to most of you, this "experimental apparatus" was developed by Alfred Beaumont Maddock’s in 1845 to establish the efficacy of inhaling the fumes of substances such as opium, digitalis, hemlock, and many more.10 Dec 2024 07:04 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcwog3wwdk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3lcusiconak2zSo, how many of you trust the publishers to put together a good book cover? And how many of you propose your own covers?09 Dec 2024 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcusiconak2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3lcuqpe5gwc2lAre the Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) measurements used in addiction research broken? Have they always been? Read about it here at Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. https://www.jsad.com/doi/full/10.15288/jsad.23-00327?journalCode=jsad09 Dec 2024 12:40 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcuqpe5gwc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3lbtp2ybu2k2sReconsidering the origins of model psychosis! Might intoxication represent an orienting concept in the history of madness more generally, making 'model psychosis' a founding model in mental pathology? #philmed #hismed #hispsy #hissci https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0952695124128674426 Nov 2024 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbtp2ybu2k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social/post/3lbomrt7l2u2uMy book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" is in production at @uchicagopress.bsky.social !24 Nov 2024 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:ppisb5idbqb7who4wbb27s32/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbomrt7l2u2u