Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions
@ International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
On view through Saturday, April 6th
The National Library of Medicine produced Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions, guest curated by historian and educator Manon Parry, PhD (University of Amsterdam).
The traveling exhibition and companion website explore the factors that have shaped the changing definitions of some of our most potent drugs, from medical miracle to social menace. Throughout the history of America, people have used mind altering drugs. While some of those drugs are socially acceptable, others are outlawed because of their toxic, and intoxicating, characteristics. These classifications have shifted at different times in history and will continue
to change.
Pick Your Poison includes an education component with a K-12 lesson plan and two university modules. A digital gallery features a curated selection of fully digitized items from the historical collections of the NLM, which are also available in their entirety in NLM Digital Collections.
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