Standards and drugs outside the pharmacy, Lyon, December 15 and 16 2011, Domaine Rockefeller.

14h: Welcome Address. Jean-François Mornex (VP conseil scientifique, Université Lyon 1)

14h20-14h40. Introduction: Ulrike Thoms & Jonathan Simon

First session Thursday 15 December 2011; 14h45-18h30: Drugs and their publics

Chair - Jeremy Greene, Harvard University (USA)

Christian Bonah, History of Medicine, University of Strasbourg (France)

Shaping public perceptions at the dawn of a drug scandal: French state television narrates pharmacy’s bright future (1958)

Nils Kessel, History of Medicine, University of Strasbourg (France)

Medicine(s) from below? drug consumption, medical reform and local health initiatives in France, 1968-1980

Coffee Break 16h10 – 16h45

16h45-18h30

Brian Munoz, University of Puerto Rico (USA)

The use of psychostimulants by university students, ethics and practices

Nuria Romo, University of Granada. Institute for Women Studies (Spain)

Gender, teens and tranquiliser use in Spain

Jean-Paul Gaudillière, CERMES (France)

Reconfiguring depression: Geigy and the practice of scientific marketing in France and Germany

20h30 Dinner (in Lyon)

– FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 2011 –

Second Session, Friday 16 December, 9h30 – 10h40: Opiates, stimulants and addiction.

Chair – Volker Hess Charité Berlin (Germany)

Production, consumption and regulatory trajectories of cocaine in the Netherlands, 1880-1930.

Hagen-Simon Stöckmann, University of Göttingen (Germany)

Addiction as modern illness and pathology of modernity. Drug use and drug policy in Germany between 1914 and 1939.

10h40-11h15 Coffee break

Third Session, 11h15-13h The emergence of the patient-consumer

Chair - Christoph Gradmann, University of Oslo (Norway)

Ulrike Thoms, Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité Berlin (Germany)

Between self-medication and prescription. The knowing drug consumer in West Germany after WWII

Ulrike Klöppel and Matthias Hoheisel, Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité Berlin

"Prescription upon request" or "determining demand"? The tranquilizer-consumer in the GDR

David Herzberg, University of Buffalo (USA)

Good medicines gone bad? Patient demand and American sedative markets from Veronal to Quaalude

13h-14h30 Lunch Break

Fourth Session, Drugs, the public and institutional reform, 14h30-16h15

Chair – Sophie Chauveau

Public reaction, government action: withdrawing Thalidomide in 1961-1962

Stuart Anderson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Britain)

The Dawn of Pharmacovigilance?’ A Re-appraisal of The Lancet Commission on Chloroform and other Anaesthetics 1893

Dominique Tobbell, University of Minnesota (USA)

“Eroding the Physician’s Control”: Authority, Expertise, and Prescription Drug Reform in Post-War America

16h15: Conclusion – Daniel Carpenter, University of Strasbourg (France)/Harvard University (USA)