Description:

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Michael J. Oldani, PhD, MS
Professor, School of Pharmacy
Director of Interprofessional Practice and Education
Concordia University 
Mequon, Wisconsin

Shamans and Their Magical Scripts:
Ketamine, Dissociation, The Market

Ketamine is an old drug with new, emergent applications.  This paper and presentation offers early ethnographic and critical assessments of ketamine’s past, present and future.  in particular, ketamine, the molecule, has a particular biological efficacy that has impacted the market, Big Pharma, and new medical practices.  Ketamine’s emergence as ‘a matter of concern’ for anthropology and medicine allows us to ask an important critical questions, beginning with: what does psychiatric care look like in a world “after Prozac?" 

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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