Drug Regimes in Southern Africa: Pharmaceutical Regulation and Consumption in Twentieth Century Contexts (360G-Wellcome-208580_Z_17_Z)

Applicants request support for three activities with five objectives: To build a collaborative network of scholars working on twentieth century histories of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, medicinal substances, narcotics, and veterinary medicines in southern Africa; To draft and review research papers within a focus area identified by the network which, in combination, will constitute a special edition of a peer-reviewed journal; To advance the research capacity of scholars working within universities in South Africa; To draw the attention of historians to lesser known sources of data for writing pharmaceutical histories in this region; To produce and disseminate new research on pharmaceutical histories in South Africa, and to expand the critical, contextual basis for studies of the pharmaceutical humanities within the burdgeoning field of the medical humanities. To facilitate these aims, this project has four proposed outputs: Establishment of a working group for the pharmaceutical humanities, made up of interdisciplinary scholars based at universities in South Africa. A workshop held at University of Johannesburg in mid-November. A tour and introduction for workshop participants of two local archives relevant to writing pharmaceutical histories in this region.. Drafting, review and submission of a series of journal articles for publication in a special edition.