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What would a material history of drug addiction read, look, sound, smell etc. like?

Today we had our weekly MUSE workshop with in-house historian of psychiatry, Jesper V. Kragh, who spoke — under the title “Changing Gender Differences: Morphine in Denmark, 1860-1960” — about the gender dimension in his current research project on the history of drug abuse in Denmark. The discussion generated a lot of discussions — and a lively Twitter-stream, including some thoughts […]

Today we had our weekly MUSE workshop with in-house historian of psychiatry, Jesper V. Kragh, who spoke — under the title “Changing Gender Differences: Morphine in Denmark, 1860-1960” — about the gender dimension in his current research project on the history of drug abuse in Denmark.
The discussion generated a lot of discussions — and a lively Twitter-stream, including some thoughts about a possible material history of drug addiction.
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