Dear colleagues
This is a reminder for an invitation to a history of medicine research seminar co-hosted by Medical Humanities Sheffield (MHS) and the Intoxicants Project. Attendance is free and no registration is required.
Tripping through the Doors of Perception? Psychedelic lessons from the past
Professor Erika Dyck, Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan
Abstract:
Psychedelics fell from medical grace nearly half a century ago, but recent activity suggests that some researchers have ‘high hopes’ for their return. Over sixty years ago Albert Hofmann at Sandoz Pharmaceutical Laboratories in Switzerland first synthesized LSD and personally experienced it effects in 1943. Over the next 15 years over a thousand articles appeared in medical and scientific publications using LSD. By the mid-1960s LSD research ground to halt as it had become synonymous with countercultural activities, hedonism, and drug abuse. Recently that situation has started to change. A new generation of researchers has taken up the torch with an eye to resurrecting the psychedelic science of the 1950s, particularly along the paths of addiction research and palliative care. Will this new group of enthusiasts be more nimble, or have cultural circumstances changed sufficiently to embrace psychedelics anew?
Details:
Wednesday, 9 November 2016, 4-5pm
Council Room at Firth Court
University of Sheffield, Western Bank,
Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom
https://goo.gl/maps/mHbr9WWdsqJ2
Professor Dyck is the author of Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD on the Canadian Prairies (2012, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press) and Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice (2013, Toronto: University of Toronto Press). For more on Professor Dyck please refer to http://research-groups.usask.ca/history-medicine/biography.php
*I am also arranging a session before her talk on Wednesday if any student or a member of staff would like an opportunity to have a chat with the speaker over a coffee. If you are interested in meeting Erika, please message me asap at [log in to unmask]
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Kind regards,
Ryo
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