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Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 398 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 728 g

Reihe: Rochester Studies in Medical History

David Herzberg / Gabriel / Kessel

Dealing with Drugs

New Histories of Risk and Benefit
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64825-169-6
Verlag: University of Rochester Press

New Histories of Risk and Benefit

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 398 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 728 g

Reihe: Rochester Studies in Medical History

ISBN: 978-1-64825-169-6
Verlag: University of Rochester Press


Explores how the concepts 'risk' and 'benefit' can operate as analytic tools across the medicine/drug divide, allowing new narratives, clearer understanding, and bridging the gap between licit and illicit.

Scholars, like most people, tend to assume that 'pharmaceuticals' and 'illicit drugs' operate as distinct categories that should be analyzed separately from one another, as if drugs such as penicillin and cocaine are different types of objects that entail different scholarly questions, literatures, and communities of inquiry. Numerous experts have challenged this assumption by demonstrating that some 'medicines' have moved across categories as a result of criminalization; yet after decades of work, simply deconstructing the boundary is no longer fresh and compelling. It also risks continuing to center the licit/illicit divide instead of offering categories that could replace or supplement it.

Dealing with Drugs: New Histories of Risk and Benefit, takes the next step: by foregrounding the rich analytic concepts 'risk' and 'benefit', chapters in this volume tell new stories about a broad group of substances that we regularly put in our bodies. Taken together, these deeply researched and innovative essays cut across inherited categories and offer a new approach to the past. In doing so, they reshape our understanding of these powerful and often dangerous chemicals. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from Europe and North America, this volume explores the utility of risk and benefit as concepts that can bridge the worlds of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs.

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Weitere Infos & Material


Introduction
Nils Kessel, Joseph Gabriel, David Herzberg

Part One: Systematizing Risk and Benefit
1. Such Immoral Pharmacy: Pharmacists, Physicians, and Addressing the Harms and Benefits of Secret Remedies in Canada

Dan Malleck
2. Ehrlich's Dangerous Magic: Salvarsan and the Fantasy of Pharmaceutical Innovation

Joseph Gabriel
3. A Non-Linear History of Side Effects: Risk Management, Pharmaceutical Innovation, and WHO's Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring, 1945-1980

Nils Kessel

Part Two: Narrating Risk and Benefit
4. What's in a Substance? LSD and the Impending Decline of the West

Beat Bächi
5. Hallucinations: 1960s Filmic Narratives of Subjective Lived Psychedelic Experiences and their Legal/Illegal Status
Christian Bonah
6. Proscribing and Prescribing: Drug Education in 1980s Britain

Alex Mold

Part Three: Crises of Risk and Benefit
7. Depo-Provera and Medical Controversies in Britain 1970s-1980s

Caroline Rusterholz
8. Trivializing an Extra-ordinary Analgesic: The Example of Tramadol in General Practice

Josephine Eberhart
9. Change for Continuity: Temporalities of Risk and Benefit in the French Appetite Suppressant Scandal of Mediator® (1976-2009)

Solène Lellinger

Part Four: Resisting Systems of Risk and Benefit
10. Lying about Opioids? Rescuing Risk and Benefit from the Addiction Paradigm

David Herzberg
11. "Why Must We Again Be the Guinea Pigs in this Genocidal Mentality?": Toward a Historical Understanding of Black Popular Resistance to Harm Reduction

Samuel Kelton Roberts
12. When Abstinence is Risk: Naloxone's Path to Over-the-Counter Status

Nancy D. Campbell

Part Five: Consumer Paradigms of Risk and Benefit

13. "A Healthy Reactive Tendency": Risks and Benefits of Cannabis and User Agency in the 1930s

Bob Beach
14. When is an Opioid Not an Opioid? Loperamide, the Use of Pharmacology and the Pharmacology of Use

Jeremy Greene and Avery Gulino
15. Containing a Gray Market Drug: The Rise and Regulation of the U.S. Poppers Industry, 1969-1991

Joseph Jay Sosa

List of Contributors
Index


Gabriel, Joseph M.
JOSEPH M. GABRIEL is Associate Professor of medical history at Florida State University.

David Herzberg, David
DAVID HERZBERG is Professor of History and Director of the interdisciplinary Drugs, Health, and Society MA Program at the University at Buffalo-SUNY.

Kessel, Nils
NILS KESSEL is Maître de conférences (Assoc. Prof.) of history of medicine, science and technology at Université de Strasbourg.

Kessel, Nils
NILS KESSEL is Maître de conférences (Assoc. Prof.) of history of medicine, science and technology at Université de Strasbourg.

David Herzberg, David
DAVID HERZBERG is Professor of History and Director of the interdisciplinary Drugs, Health, and Society MA Program at the University at Buffalo-SUNY.

Gabriel, Joseph M.
JOSEPH M. GABRIEL is Associate Professor of medical history at Florida State University.



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