AIHP Multimedia

This page contains links to multimedia (videos, audio, podcasts, etc.) about the history of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals. The links below include AIHP-produced events and multimedia participated in by AIHP-affiliated speakers.

• 2023 Kreminar: Accessing the History of Health, Pharmacy, and Medicines in Madison with Lucas Richert

• 2023 Kreminar: What is the Soft Drug Problem?: Gatekeeping, Pharmacist Authority, and the Pharmaceutical Industry with Lucas Richert and Gabriel Lake Carter

• AIHP Contested Cannabis Roundtable held on on December 8, 2021

• La Ruta Histórica de la Farmacia en San Juan (The Historical Route of Pharmacy in San Juan)

A project of the Puerto Rican Society for the History of Pharmacy produced in conjunction with Caribe Films, this video (36 minutes and 52 seconds) recounts the history of pharmacy in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from 1512 through the twenty-first century. Thanks to the Puerto Rican Society for the History of Pharmacy for allowing AIHP to provide access to this documentary for the benefit of AIHP members and for all viewers interested in the history of pharmacy. Watch Below!

• 2021 AIHP Annual Business Meeting Full Video (Nov. 18, 2021) Watch Below!

• Video of Ben Urick and Christian Brown Historical Lecture, “The Environment was Just Ice: Desegregating the UNC School of Pharmacy” from the 2021 AIHP Annual Business Meeting. Watch Below!

• AIHP Fischelis Scholar Gregory Higby and longtime AIHP member Stuart Anderson participate in a panel discussion for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about the history of pharmacy in Australia.
• AIHP Historical Director discusses his book, Break On Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture, on the Historical Perspectives On Contemporary Issues podcast hosted by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (September 9, 2021).
• Ed Foote, George Downs, and Megan Undeberg give the presentation, “Strike up the Band: 200 Years of Pharmacy Education,” at the 2021 AACP meeting. Watch below!

• AIHP Fischelis Scholar Greg Higby discusses “500 Days that Shaped the Future of the History of Pharmacy in the US,” at the 2020 AACP meeting. Watch below!

• AIHP Historical Director Lucas Richert discusses important topics in the history of pharmacy and talks about resources/collections for the history of pharmacy at AIHP and the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy (March 2021). Watch below!

• 2020 AIHP Annual Business Meeting Full Video (Nov. 5, 2020)
  • Video of John Grabenstein Historical Lecture: Applying History’s Lessons to Contemporary COVID-19 Vaccination
• New Social History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals Festival (September 24–September 29 2020)
  • Videos of all 21 Festival events including invited Festival talks, Book Talks, Roundtables, and Panel presentations.
• 2020 Summer AIHP Edward Kremers Seminar in the History of Pharmacy & Drugs—Cannabis:
  • Dr. Lina Britto, “Marijuana Boom: The Rise & Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise.”
  • Dr. Chris Duvall, “The African Roots of Marijuana.”
  • Dr. Emily Dufton, “Grassroots: A History of Marijuana’s Ups and Downs in America.”
  • Dr. Adam Rathge, “Cannabis Cures: Medical Jurisprudence and the Origins of the War on Drugs.”
  • Dr. David Guba, “Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France.”
• AIHP Assistant Director Greg Bond Interviews AIHP Member John Clark about the Role of Historically Black Pharmacy Schools for ASHP podcast series (February 2020).
• AIHP Historical Director Lucas Richert interviews History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals Editorial Board member David Courtwright about his new book The Age of Addiction for the New Books Network podcast (May 10, 2019).
• AIHP Board Member David Herzberg lectures about the historical roots of the opioid crisis (November 2018).
• AIHP President William Zellmer interviews Retiring AIHP Executive Director Greg Higby (November 2018).
• AIHP Historical Director Lucas Richert discusses psychiatry, intoxicants and radicalism on the “Radical Americas” podcast (January 11, 2018).
• AIHP Historical Director Lucas Richert talks about the relationship between yoga, psychedelics, and South Asian and Eastern religions on the Radical Therapist podcast (April 15, 2018).