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[Blank] is to Big Tobacco: Historical Analogies in Bloomberg’s ‘Big Gulp’ Ban
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s attempted ban on the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces suffered a defeat in court a few weeks ago. But criticism of the industry that has been termed “Big Sugar” or...
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Does “Public Health” Really Want To Own Addiction?
Editor’s Note: Guest blogger and medical anthropologist Kim Sue returned from a recent conference entitled “From Punishment to Wellness: A Public Health Approach to Women and the War on Drugs” with...
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Beyond “Damp Feminism”: Thoughts on the UVa Rape Scandal and Campus Drinking...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s post is written by Points contributing editor Michelle McClellan. Like many others, I read the story in Rolling Stone magazine about a gang rape at the University of Virginia...
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“Typhoid Junkie”: Controversies over Contagion and Cure in the Mid-20th Century
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Jordan Mylet, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of California, San Diego. This is Part 1 in a series on The Addict and...
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Coming Soon: Cannabis Clinical Outcomes Research Conference (CCORC) 2021
April 8th – 9th, 2021 | VirtualLearn, share, and advance medical marijuana research Hosted by the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research, we welcome your participation and...
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“Ethical Displays”: AIHP’s Frank Pinchak Poster Collection & the History of...
Editor’s Note: From the Collections highlights articles, artifacts, images, and other items of interest from publications and historical collections of the American Institute of the History of...
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Pharmacy in History Interview—Kathi Badertscher, “Insulin at 100:...
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of the Points series of interviews with authors from the latest issue of AIHP’s journal Pharmacy in History (vol. 62, no. 3-4). Today we feature Kathi...
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Quiet Radicals: The Life and Work of Ruth and Edward Brecher
Part 1 – Ruth Came First Editor’s Note: This post is by Points Managing Editor Emerita Emily Dufton. She holds a PhD in American Studies from George Washington University and is the author of Grass...
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ICDPS fall seminar series unpacks complex global health histories
We are still living the COVID-19 pandemic, and scholarship regarding public health, drug history, and global health governance has become more important than ever. In light of recent global health...
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Welcoming our new Contributing Editors
Capucine Barcellona Steve Beitler Juliet Flam-Ross Christopher Hallam Kawal Deep Kour Points is delighted to introduce five new Contributing Editors who were welcomed to the Editorial team this month....
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