{"title":"Averting Miscarriage in Early Modern Europe","authors":"Kathleen Crowther","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.2.199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.2.199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"129 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140470433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Zihuatanejo Project","authors":"Nidia A. Olvera, Zinnia Capó","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.1.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.1.63","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> This article analyzes how and why Timothy Leary established a psychedelic research center in Zihuatanejo, Mexico in the summers of 1962 and 1963. We analyze the reaction Mexican authorities and academics had to this event, the part the press played in public portrayal, the rise of psychedelic drug tourism, and the effect this center had on the local community and wider counterculture. Modern history of psychedelics in Mexico—including Leary’s influence—has seldom been studied. We contribute to the history of psychoactive substances by integrating a transnational perspective that focuses on people and events in Mexico and the United States, and on how international travel and the exchange of knowledge jointly constructed a fundamental part of the psychedelic movement. Based on historical and ethnographic sources, we argue that moral panic around drugs, fears over social and cultural changes, sensationalist press coverage, a rigid political system, and rifts with the local community contributed to the closure of the Zihuatanejo Project. More broadly, we note how these factors influenced the Mexican government and society’s reaction to the <i>jipi</i> movement throughout the 1960s.","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135607139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Forward by Looking Back","authors":"Patrick Elf, Amy Isham, Dario Leoni","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.1.33","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> Much has been written in the academic and popular press on the positive consequences of psychedelic-induced mental states. Following the disappearance of psychedelic research from the public eye between the 1970s and early 2000s, a second wave of psychedelic research is gaining increasing interest from private sector actors looking to explore commercial opportunities. The commercialization of psychedelic substances will likely have consequences for how they are used, to what ends, and to what degree of efficacy. We reflect on the critiques of commercialized mindfulness and explore how they may apply to the future of commercialized psychedelics. Mindfulness and psychedelics share several qualities, including their often spiritual origins and self-transcendent nature. However, mindfulness has already undergone a period of commercialization and represents a precedent case for imagining the possible outcomes of the commercialization of psychedelics. By considering the problems associated with separating the practice from its spiritual roots, co-optation to reinforce neoliberal principles, and alterations to administration to cut costs, the article demonstrates the tensions that arise when trying to implement practices rooted in enhancing well-being in societies dominated by consumer capitalism.","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135607140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning about STP","authors":"Matthew J. Baggott","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.1.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.1.93","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> In 1967, a synthetic psychedelic drug, nicknamed STP, escaped from the archives of Dow Chemical and flooded the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. The resulting public health crisis can be seen as a case study in how new unsanctioned psychoactive substances become legible to society through the efforts of different actors. STP was interpreted by young hip doctors, underground chemists, and the users themselves. While the first group achieved recognition as experts, the others were largely omitted from media reports on the drug. This article brings together contemporary media reports, pharmacology, and first-person accounts to explore how STP came to be understood as a dangerous drug. As psychedelics gain renewed attention, it is timely to use historic events like the STP crisis to understand how knowledge of new drugs is formed and what sources are recognized or overlooked in the process.","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135606827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview with Susan R. Whyte","authors":"Rafaela Zorzanelli","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.1.160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.1.160","url":null,"abstract":"This is the sixth interview in the journal’s new “Conversations” section. Drawn from my broader project Interviews with Researchers from the Anthropology, History, and Sociology of Pharmaceuticals: Mapping Out the Area ,[1][1] the following discussion features Susan R. Whyte. For an unabridged","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135607141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shahin Shams, Amanda Rose Pratt, Sisi Li, Tom Isenbarger
{"title":"The Evolving Role of History in the Past, Present, and Future of Psychedelic Patenting","authors":"Shahin Shams, Amanda Rose Pratt, Sisi Li, Tom Isenbarger","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.1.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.1.117","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> The resurgence of mainstream psychedelic research has spurred a capitalist interest in patenting to exclude competitors from producing, using, or selling psychedelic technology. Some exploit the patenting process to monopolize well-established psychedelic knowledge with overly broad claims. If patent examiners find evidence, known as “prior art,” showing that what is claimed is known, patent rights are not granted. Historical psychedelic prior art therefore plays a critical role in shaping the future of patent law in the context of psychedelic capitalism. Given that some psychedelic prior art exists in nontraditional forms, patent examiners may not be able to identify relevant prior art to nullify overly broad claims. Consequently, several psychedelic patents have erroneously been granted. Organizations and intellectual property activists leverage direct methods of introducing historical psychedelic prior art to fight these overly broad patents and applications on a claim-by-claim basis with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Valuable historical archival psychedelic prior art is likewise curated and made available to patent examiners and innovators through the work of the online psychedelic prior art library Porta Sophia and its broad interdisciplinary network of experts. The psychedelic field is at a critical developmental juncture, and it is essential that all involved work to ensure that its landscape remains equitable, research can flourish, and vulnerable communities with strong cultural connections to psychedelics are protected.","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135606824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tending a Vibrant World","authors":"Keith Williams, Suzanne Brant","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> Indigenous people have been stewards of sacred plant medicines for millennia. Many of these sacred medicines—such as tobacco, cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and more recently the ayahuasca admixture and psilocybin-containing fungi—have been commercialized via their entry into the global capitalist economy. In this article, we offer readers an introduction to Indigenous gift logic as an alternative to the necropolitics of colonial extraction associated with the contemporary psychedelic resurgence. Unlike barter or monetary-based economic systems, gift economies are based on the notion of gift giving without a tacit agreement for future reward. The logic of the gift goes beyond this accessible definition in that it underpins an episteme of relationality that is difficult (if not impossible) to nurture when our plant and fungal relations are treated as things or commodities, rather than lives with their own habits, dispositions, and agency. We offer suggestions for reorienting the psychedelic resurgence to create space for relational ontologies to flourish, indexed to place, and informed by Indigenous gift logic.","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135607305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Timothy M. Yang,<i>A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan</i>","authors":"Ryosuke Yokoe","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.1.182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.1.182","url":null,"abstract":"Timothy M. Yang, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021; 335 pp.; $54.95 (cloth). Timothy M. Yang’s A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan tells the story of the rise and fall of Hoshi","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135606826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neşe Devenot, Brian Pace, Lucas Richert, Mary Magnuson
{"title":"Editor’s Introduction","authors":"Neşe Devenot, Brian Pace, Lucas Richert, Mary Magnuson","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Buoyed by calls for medical access, social justice, and regulation, psychedelic substances and products are becoming more socially acceptable in various jurisdictions, and support for regulatory changes continues to grow in some countries. Several estimates suggest that the psychedelic industry may","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135607138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Introduction of Peyote into Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Frameworks","authors":"Mary Magnuson, Hannah Swan, Lucas Richert","doi":"10.3368/hopp.65.1.169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.1.169","url":null,"abstract":"In a 1968 issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , George Bender describes the process of securing plant materials suspected to have medicinal, psychoactive, or pharmacologically compelling properties as “rough and ready research.”[1][1] In the mid- to late","PeriodicalId":13221,"journal":{"name":"History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135607310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}