Acid Brothers: Henry Beecher, Timothy Leary, and the psychedelic of the century.
Perspectives in biology and medicine January 1, 2016 Jonathan D Moreno 15 citations
Henry Knowles Beecher, a key figure in human research ethics, and Timothy Leary, a counterculture icon, are linked by the drug LSD. Though both were at Harvard during a period of social upheaval and never met, Beecher's indirect conflict with Leary over the control of LSD shaped Beecher's views on responsible scientific investigation. This struggle also foreshadowed the growing formal oversight of human experimentation that was emerging at the time.