Mike Jay

Mike Jay has written widely on the cultural history of science, medicine and the mind. His books include The Influencing Machine , The Story of James Tilly Matthews and his Confinement in Eighteenth-century Bedlam and High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and Culture . He reviews regularly for The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal . This Way Madness Lies was written in conjunction with the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', which he co-curated for the Wellcome...See more

Mike Jay has written widely on the cultural history of science, medicine and the mind. His books include The Influencing Machine , The Story of James Tilly Matthews and his Confinement in Eighteenth-century Bedlam and High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and Culture . He reviews regularly for The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal . This Way Madness Lies was written in conjunction with the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', which he co-curated for the Wellcome Collection in London. He is a research affiliate of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London and a trustee of the Bethlem Art and History Collection. See less