Artifacts Rodeo
Join the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy's Archivist for an exploration of pharmacy history through artifacts, ephemera, and historical documents!
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Join the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy's Archivist for an exploration of pharmacy history through artifacts, ephemera, and historical documents!
Please join us as we visit the Department of Special Collections in Memorial Library to view a 1619 manuscript documenting the prohibition of peyote in colonial New Spain. We will be joined by special guest Dr. Alberto Vargas, Associate Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) at UW-Madison, and Laura Martin, Ibero-American Studies and Romance Languages Librarian, and Jorge Hernandez Lasa, a dissertator in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and an expert in medieval Spanish.
Join the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy's Archivist for an exploration of pharmacy history through artifacts, ephemera, and historical documents!
Join the Borghesi-Mellon Psychedelic Pasts, Presents, and Futures workshop group for an archive tour and collections viewing at the UW Madison School of Pharmacy’s very own American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP)! Guests will have the opportunity to view rare materials, artifacts, and ephemera focused on disseminating psychedelic and narcotic drug knowledge to the American public in the 20th century.
Join the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and the School of Pharmacy Archivist for an exploration of pharmacy history through artifacts, ephemera, and historical documents!This month's event will […]
Join the Borghesi-Mellon Psychedelic Pasts, Presents, and Futures workshop group at the Allen Centennial Gardens (ACG) for a self-guided tour. Drop by and learn from UW community members about plants that have the potential to affect the health of people, the Earth, and our relationships.
Join the Borghesi-Mellon Psychedelic Past, Presents, and Futures workshop group for an illuminating conversation between Drs. John Dunne and David Yaden as they discuss the mystical experience, phenomenology, and how […]
Recent events as diverse as America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis, the anti-vaccine movement, the debate over the legalization and regulation of marijuana and other personal use drugs, struggles over drug prices and accessibility, among others, all have roots in the history of pharmacy, pharmaceuticals, drugs, medicines, and healthcare. The wide-ranging public debates about these topics vividly demonstrate the vital importance of grounding contemporary public health discussions in a clear understanding of their relevant histories -- and in evidence.
In light of contemporary court cases about the legal and ethical responsibility of pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy chains to protect patients and consumers from psychoactive and intoxicating substances, this Kreminar highlights the internal debates between pharmacists about their need to balance profits with public health concerns related to so-called "dangerous drugs" and "magic bullets.”
Geothermal baths and healing springs have a millenia-spanning history of medical tourism, from the ancient Roman baths to the spas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, considered to be the golden age of the so-called “water cure”.