Lucas Richert

Lucas Richert is the George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Conservatism, Consumer Choice and the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan Era: A Prescription for Scandal (Lexington, 2014), which won the Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize in 2015; Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs (MQUP, 2019); and, most recently, Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture (MIT Press, 2019). Richert also co-hosts the Drugs, Addiction, and Recovery podcast for the New Books Network.