Acclaimed documentarian Liz Garbus‘s most recent documentary feature, There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (which premiered this week...

Editors’ Note: This is the third and final of Michael Durfee’s reports from the recent ADHS conference.  We’re grateful to him for his...

What is it that interests students about the history of drugs?  As it turns out, a wide variety of topics.  And not necessarily the ones...

Note: The following is David Courtwright’s thoughtful response to my earlier post, in which I raised some questions about his recent...

And even more shocked to find that other people are being shocked to learn of it.  That’s what’s going on over at Inside Higher Ed today,...

Perhaps it is because I teach in a medical school, rather than a traditional academic history department, but over the past two years I...

One of the rewards of blogging is an instant boost to your awareness of what others are doing with the same sort of forum.  Among other...