Dealing with Drugs

David Herzberg, Joseph M. Gabriel, and Nils Kessell reflect on the shifting boundaries between medicines and drugs. The speakers emphasise the importance of the humanities in making sense of these complexities. Rather than treating drugs as purely technical objects, humanistic approaches place them within broader stories of human behaviour, inequality, and belief. Kessell describes this work as “putting science back into society,” while Gabriel underscores the urgency of humanities perspectives in addressing contemporary crises in medicine. Download the transcript More about the University of Rochester Press