Editor’s Note: Points is pleased to highlight for our readers this call for contributors for the proposed Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Literature. Thanks to the Editors Kate Gaudet and Jay Williams for passing the information along! We are seeking scholars of literature and drugs to contribute to the proposed Routledge Handbook of Drugs andContinue reading “Call for Contributors: Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Literature“
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SHAD Seeking Book Review Editor
The journal Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (SHAD), published by University of Chicago Press, is seeking a Book Review Editor. This position entails commissioning, selecting, and editing book reviews for publication in the journal’s bi-annual publication cycle. This position fills an important role in the journal’s editorial team, helping to ensure that SHAD provides scholarly reviews of theContinue reading “SHAD Seeking Book Review Editor”
Pharmacy in History Interview—Kathi Badertscher, “Insulin at 100: Indianapolis, Toronto, Woods Hole, and the ‘Insulin Road'”
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of the Points series of interviews with authors from the latest issue of AIHP’s journal Pharmacy in History (vol. 62, no. 3-4). Today we feature Kathi Badertscher, Director of Graduate Programs and a lecturer at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. You can see her article here. Contact AIHP toContinue reading “Pharmacy in History Interview—Kathi Badertscher, “Insulin at 100: Indianapolis, Toronto, Woods Hole, and the ‘Insulin Road’””
Teaching Points: Transforming a Survey Course and Improving Student Research
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Bob Beach. Beach is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Albany, SUNY. The Teaching Points series investigates the role of alcohol, drug, and pharmaceutical history in the classroom. When I first started teaching in 2009, I assigned my class a research project. With absolutely noContinue reading “Teaching Points: Transforming a Survey Course and Improving Student Research”
Opioids, Overdose, Abstinence—A Historically Deadly Combination
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Brooks Hudson, a PhD student in history at Southern Illinois University. We have told ourselves the “opioid crisis” is an exception to past drug scares. In the past century, the narrative goes, we relied on law enforcement and punishment to curb widescale drug use, but our country nowContinue reading “Opioids, Overdose, Abstinence—A Historically Deadly Combination”
Watch 2021 “Kreminar” Videos—History of Opiates & Opioids
In May and June of 2021, the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society hosted and helped organize 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 discussionsContinue reading “Watch 2021 “Kreminar” Videos—History of Opiates & Opioids”
“Ethical Displays”: AIHP’s Frank Pinchak Poster Collection & the History of Public Health Information
Editor’s Note: From the Collections highlights articles, artifacts, images, and other items of interest from publications and historical collections of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP). In this post, Points Managing Editor and AIHP Head Archivist Greg Bond describes the Institute’s Frank Pinchak Poster Collection. “Records indicate that over 90 MILLION AMERICANS stillContinue reading ““Ethical Displays”: AIHP’s Frank Pinchak Poster Collection & the History of Public Health Information”
Teaching Points: Lesson Plan in Truth, Lies, and Anti-Drug Propaganda
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post comes from Stephen Siff, an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Miami University of Ohio. He is the author of Acid Hype: American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience (University of Illinois Press, 2015). I teach media literacy in introductory journalism and mass communication classes atContinue reading “Teaching Points: Lesson Plan in Truth, Lies, and Anti-Drug Propaganda”