Standard drugs and drug standards
A comparative historical study of pharmaceuticals in the 20th century
News
IMPORTANT NOTE:
On 28 February 2013, the ESF-DRUGS networking programme officially came to an end. Over the next two years the final publications projects of the network will be realized; however, no new meetings or exchange grants will be offered. The Chair Volker Hess and the Programme Coordinator Brigit Ramsingh would like to thank the ESF, the ESF-DRUGS network members across Europe and its community of supporters and collaborators worldwide for their hard work over the past five years.
DRUGS FINAL CONFERENCE
The ESF-DRUGS Research Networking Programme is coming to an end. We are celebrating with a final two day conference in Berlin 20-22 February 2013 where we will look back at the results of our research whilst also looking ahead to future areas of collaboration. Please see programme flyer here.
6/7 December: STand Ex: Standard Exchanges Programme
Strasbourg
More information:
http://dhvs.u-strasbg.fr/2012/11/12/colloque-standex/
29/30 November: DRUGS AND COLD WAR.
SCIENCE, STANDARDS AND POLITICS IN EUROPE
Venue: Section of History of Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome –
Viale dell’Università 34/a, 00185 Rome.
Is This the End?
The Eclipse of the Therapeutic Revolution Programme
October 4-6, 2012, University of Zurich, Switzerland
The Institute and Museum of the History of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
will host an international conference of the European Science Foundation’s research network
“DRUGS”. The conference will be held from October 4-6, 2012 in Zurich in conjunction with
the Competence Centre for the History of Knowledge (ETH Zurich and University of Zurich).
More information here:
http://www.mhiz.uzh.ch/drugs.html
The program for the "Drugs and the Birth of Scientific Marketing" workshop is ready and available to download here.
4-5 June 2012, Berlin Medizinhistorische Museum, Charité Universitätsmedizin.
CfP:POLITICS AND DRUGS. Pharmaceutical research and drug management in Post-WWII and Cold War Europe. Rome, 29-30 November 2012.
Venue: Section of History of Medicine, University of Rome La Sapienza.
Download the Call for Proposals
CfP: Animal Models, Model Animals? Meanings and Practices in the History
of the Biomedical Sciences.
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM),
University of Manchester (UK), Friday 21st September 2012.
Download the Call for Proposals
CfP: "Drugs and the birth of scientific marketing"
Berlin, June 4th-5th, 2012
Changes to the ESF Guidelines for Research Networking Programs (RNPs)
Standards and drug use outside the pharmacy.
Conference to be held in Lyon, France; 15, 16, 17 December 2011.
Gendered Drug Standards: Historical and Socio-anthropological perspectives
University of Granada, 28-30 November 2011.
"Beyond the Magic Bullet: Reframing the History of Antibiotics"
Workshop 17-19 March 2011, Oslo, Norway
Organisers: Christoph Gradmann (Oslo) and Flurin Condrau (Zurich)
Drugs, Standards and the Practices of Globalization, To be held in Paris December 9-11, 2010.
An International Conference of the ESF DRUGS Program organized by CERMES 3 (Centre de Recherches Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société) with the support of Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
The first ESF DRUGS Preprint Circulation of Antibiotics: Journeys of Drug Standards, 1930-1970 is now available. Download it here.
Harmonizing Drugs. Standards in 20th Century Pharmaceutical History Edited by Christian Bonah, Christophe Masutti, Anne Rasmussen and Jonathan Simon. The volume based on our opening conference in Strasbourg is ready.
Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950, Edited by: Christoph Gradmann, Jonathan Simon is now available. Order here.
Ways of Regulating: Therapeutic Agents between Plants, Shops, and Consulting Rooms. Eds. Jean Paul Gaudillière and Volker Hess (=Preprint 363). Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin 2008.
Activities
Forthcoming activities
Past activities
Drugs, Standards and the Practices of Globalization
Paris December 9-11, 2010.
An International Conference of the ESF DRUGS Program organized by CERMES 3 (Centre de Recherches Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société) with the support of Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Standardizing and Marketing Drugs in the 20th Century
Conference 7-8 October 2010
Charité Institute for the History of Medicine, Berlin Germany
Collaboration: ESF DRUGS and DFG-ANR
Workshop: Drugs, Living Things and the Problems of Standardization
ESF Research Networking Program DRUGS
Workshop 25-27 March 2010
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Organised by the ESF DRUGS network, Group Biologicals
Workshop (27-28 November 2009, Manchester)
Drugs, Standards, and Chronic Illness
Workshop Antibiotics (16-18 June 2009, Madrid)
Circulation of Antibiotics: Journeys of Drug Standards, 1930-1970
Organization : A. Romero
Workshop (21-23 May 2009, Barcelona)
Innovation Economy and History of Science and Technology. The Making of the Contemporary Pharmaceutical Research System.
Worshop Psychochemicals (23-24 April 2009, Utrecht)
Organization : S. Snelders, A. Blankesteijn
The Opening Conference (4-5.12.2008)
The opening conference will be held at Strasbourg, the 4-5.12.2008. Agenda will coming soon.
Day 1 morning - Communications on DRUGS topics
Day 1 afternoon - thematic working groups
Day 2 morning - Teams meetings (5): discussion around the workshop of 2009
Day 2 afternoon - final conferences (end at 4:00 pm)
Preparatory workshop of the Team 4 'psychochemical' (19.09.2008)
Agenda: presentation of participants and researches, management of the Team, publications, organization of the first workshop in Utrecht (23-25 April 2009).
First Program Meeting (14.03.2008)
Meeting of representatives of local groups at Strasbourg
Agenda: presentation of ESF, aims and objectives of the program, report on the Steering Committee meeting, shedule 2008, working plan, publicity, database, publications, Postgraduate/postdoctoral program 2008, travel grants, the opening conference. See the Minutes
First Steering Committee meeting (13.03.2008)
Meeting at Strasbourg and official launch of the program.
Agenda : election of chair and program coordinator, budget and planning of activities 2008, Postgraduate/postdoctoral program 2008, travel grants, publicity, management of the Research Network. See the Minutes