Work in Progress: Addiction, Pragmatism, and History
I’ve been working on a paper recently with a colleague of mine, Nathan Crick at Louisiana State University, and for a bit of a change of...
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Mitt Romney Gets Compassionate
Posted without comment, except… “wow.” #Marijuana #medicine #Policy
A Dispatch from Buffalo: Session H1 – Drugs and the City
As readers of this blog know, many of us recently convened in Buffalo for the 6th Biennial Meeting of the Alcohol and Drug History...
Wachovia’s Drug Habit
The Observer reports on how Wachovia – one of the United State’s largest banks before it was purchased by Wells Fargo in 2008 – laundered...
Work in Progress: Between Biological Reductionism and the Social Construction of Addiction
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Randolph Nesse about the evolutionary origins of addiction – Nesse is perhaps the leading...
On Moving Beyond “Context”
Perhaps it is because I teach in a medical school, rather than a traditional academic history department, but over the past two years I...
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