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Item An Origin Story for “Big Pharma” in the Reign of Louis XIV? An Early Modern History for the Present(Ruth Lilly Medical Library, 2024-04-05) Rivest, JustinPresentation slides for lecture delivered by Justin Rivest, PhD (Assistant Professor of History, Kenyon College) on April 5, 2024. This talk poses a fertile, if playfully anachronistic, historical question: In the final two decades of his seventy-two-year reign, did Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) subsidize the world’s first “Big Pharma” companies into existence? From the 1680s onward the Sun King granted monopoly rights and government supply contracts, first to the court physician Jean-Baptiste Chomel, and then to the Dutch-born medical entrepreneur Adriaan Engelhard Helvetius (naturalized French as Adrien Helvétius). Both men developed proto-industrial operations that annually shipped tens of thousands of standardized medicine chests all over France and beyond. Building on relationships forged in supplying medicines to the French army, Rivest argues that they took advantage of supply problems in existing Catholic poor relief networks to provide their standardized medicines to the largest possible purchaser—the French absolutist state—and the largest possible consumer base—the peasants of rural France. Although grounded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this talk raises questions about the connections between charity and capitalism; the role of private entrepreneurs in fulfilling the state objectives; and about how the state shapes markets as a consumer, rather than just as a regulator, that continue to have resonance in the twenty-first century. Presentation recording available online: https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/q47r66rn7rItem Mental Illness, Violence, and Anti-Blackness in France, c. 1900-1960(2022-12-07) Nelson, ElizabethItem How The Fault in Our Stars illuminates four themes of the Adolescent End of Life Narrative(BMJ, 2018) Kirkman, Anna Obergfell; Hartsock, Jane A.; Torke, Alexia M.; Medical Humanities and Health Studies, School of Liberal ArtsAdolescents who face life-limiting illness have unique developmental features and strong personal preferences around end of life (EOL) care. Understanding and documenting those preferences can be enhanced by practising narrative medicine. This paper aims to identify a new form of narrative, the Adolescent End of Life Narrative, and recognise four central themes. The Adolescent EOL Narrative can be observed in young adult fiction, The Fault in Our Stars, which elucidates the notion that terminally ill adolescents have authentic preferences about their life and death. Attaining narrative competence and appreciating the distinct perspective of the dying adolescent allows medical providers and parents to support the adolescent in achieving a good death. By thinking with the Adolescent EOL Narrative, adults can use Voicing my CHOiCES, an EOL planning guide designed for adolescents, to effectively capture the adolescent’s preferences, and the adolescent can make use of this type of narrative to make sense of their lived experience.Item "Faith and Medicine: Integration or Separation? Creating Space For Reflection And Growth"(2012-02-02) Lynch Jr., JamesItem "Whither the Professions"(2012-02-24) Tuchman, Steven L.; Boulton, Matthew Myer; Gunderman, RichardItem John Shaw Billings Lecture: Charles P. Emerson, M.D.(1992-01-14) Irwin, GlennItem "In Minute Particulars: Humanitarian Medicine in Rural Africa"(2012-08-27) Einterz, EllenItem John Shaw Billings Lecture: Exploring Epidemics(1992-01-15) Rosenberg, CharlesItem "Fitter Families, Better Babies, and Reproductive Control"(2005-10-10) Stern, AlexandraItem "History of The Indiana University School Of Medicine"(1990-01-02) Irwin Jr., Glen
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