2021 AIHP/UW School of Pharmacy Summer Kreminar 4: David Herzberg and Nancy Campbell (6/3)
Please enjoy this video from the second annual Edward Kremers Seminar in the History of Pharmacy & Drugs. The Summer 2021 “Kreminar” explored the theme of Opiates & Opioids and featured six virtual seminars, presentations, and discussions by scholars and practitioners researching and writing about the history and the contemporary status of opiates, opioids, and addiction. Hosts and sponsors of the Summer 2021 Kreminar were: The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy; The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy; The University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences; and The Alcohol and Drugs History Society. The fourth presentation was by Dr. David Herzberg and Dr. Nancy Campbell on June 3, 2021, speaking about, “Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia.” Dr. Nancy Campbell is the Department Head in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a historian of science, technology, and medicine who focuses on legal and illegal drugs, drug science, policy, and treatment, harm reduction, and gender and addiction. She is the author of many books and articles, including Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice (Routledge, 2000); Dr. David Herzberg is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of Addiction Studies at the University at Buffalo. A historian of drugs with a focus on the legal kind-—addictive medicines, he has published numerous scholarly and popular articles and is the author of Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). He has published numerous articles. In 2001, he received an AIHP PhD Research Support Grant. Abstract: Until recently, historians who studied opioids studied criminalized heroin markets and their participants. Dr. Nancy Campbell, the author of OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose (MIT Press, 2020), and Dr. David Herzberg, author of White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America (University of Chicago Press, 2020), argue that we can’t understand prohibition markets unless we also understand the history of (much larger) pharmaceutical markets. Why did certain pharmaceutical opioids, and opioid antagonists, come to matter the way they did, when they did—particularly during the social and political ferment of the early 21st century’s “opioid crisis”? How does incorporating the story of pharmaceuticals change our understanding of the history of opioids, addiction, and overdose? For more information about the 2021 Kreminar, please visit: https://aihp.org/kreminar/summer-2021-opioids/
Please enjoy this video from the second annual Edward Kremers Seminar in the History of Pharmacy & Drugs. The Summer 2021 “Kreminar” explored the theme of Opiates & Opioids and featured six virtual seminars, presentations, and discussions by scholars and practitioners researching and writing about the history and the contemporary status of opiates, opioids, and addiction. Hosts and sponsors of the Summer 2021 Kreminar were: The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy; The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy; The University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences; and The Alcohol and Drugs History Society. The fourth presentation was by Dr. David Herzberg and Dr. Nancy Campbell on June 3, 2021, speaking about, “Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia.” Dr. Nancy Campbell is the Department Head in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a historian of science, technology, and medicine who focuses on legal and illegal drugs, drug science, policy, and treatment, harm reduction, and gender and addiction. She is the author of many books and articles, including Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice (Routledge, 2000); Dr. David Herzberg is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of Addiction Studies at the University at Buffalo. A historian of drugs with a focus on the legal kind-—addictive medicines, he has published numerous scholarly and popular articles and is the author of Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). He has published numerous articles. In 2001, he received an AIHP PhD Research Support Grant. Abstract: Until recently, historians who studied opioids studied criminalized heroin markets and their participants. Dr. Nancy Campbell, the author of OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose (MIT Press, 2020), and Dr. David Herzberg, author of White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America (University of Chicago Press, 2020), argue that we can’t understand prohibition markets unless we also understand the history of (much larger) pharmaceutical markets. Why did certain pharmaceutical opioids, and opioid antagonists, come to matter the way they did, when they did—particularly during the social and political ferment of the early 21st century’s “opioid crisis”? How does incorporating the story of pharmaceuticals change our understanding of the history of opioids, addiction, and overdose? For more information about the 2021 Kreminar, please visit: https://aihp.org/kreminar/summer-2021-opioids/