Triangle Intellectual History Seminar Series

Thorazine and Terror: Pharmacotherapy for the African Personality

March 26, -
Speaker(s): Nana Quarshie (Yale)

Nana Osei Quarshie is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine, with secondary appointments in the Section of the History of Medicine in the Yale School of Medicine, and in the Department of Anthropology. He received his doctorate from the Interdepartmental Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan (2020). His first book project, An African Pharmakon, examines the place of psychiatric care in processes of social stratification and in the production of national, regional, and ethnic diversity in West Africa.

[Note: This event was originally scheduled for Feb. 12 and, later, March 19.]

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