David Herzberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 2206979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Herzberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Herzberg |
| SIGNATURE | HERZBERG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Holly Karibo Rehab on the Range
Term 2 and Taking Stock
Previous articleNext article FreeTerm 2 and Taking StockNancy Campbell, David Herzberg, and Lucas RichertNancy Campbell Search for more articles by this author , David Herzberg Search for more articles by this author , and Lucas Richert Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe first issue of Th…
The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease
As an international network of historians and social scientists who study approaches to the management of drugs across time and place, we have noticed the effort to redefine addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CRBD). The CRBD model is promoted as a route to destigmatize addiction and to empower individuals to access treatment that works within that model’s terms.1 CRBD usefully recognizes that brain-based neural adaptations place ind…
Stuck in Traffic
Since the late twentieth century, two United Nations organizations have monitored the global trade in drugs from their respective perches in Geneva: the Essential Drugs Program of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). In 1988, the Essential Drugs Program published the first edition of the World Drug Situation, which narrates the many barriers preventing “essential” drugs (antibiotics, anti-e…
Chemically Imbalanced
Reviewed by: Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery by Joseph E. Davis David Herzberg Joseph E. Davis. Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 244 pp. $30.00 (978-0-226-68668-4). It can be difficult for pharmaceutical historians to know as much as we should about the single most important char…
Bienvenido a este número especial
Previous articleNext article Free¡Bienvenido a este número especial!Nancy Campbell, David Herzberg, and Lucas RichertNancy Campbell Search for more articles by this author , David Herzberg Search for more articles by this author , and Lucas Richert Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreNow a yea…
Forty Years On
A New Era
Previous articleNext article FreeA New EraNancy Campbell, David Herzberg, and Lucas RichertNancy Campbell Search for more articles by this author , David Herzberg Search for more articles by this author , and Lucas Richert Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWelcome to the new(ish) SHAD, our f…
Entitled to Addiction
This article rethinks the formative decades of American drug wars through a social history of addiction to pharmaceutical narcotics, sedatives, and stimulants in the first half of the twentieth century. It argues, first, that addiction to pharmaceutical drugs is no recent aberration; it has historically been more extensive than "street" or illicit drug use. Second, it argues that access to psychoactive pharmaceuticals was a problematic social ent…
Gender and Critical Drug Studies
This is an introduction to conjoined special issues of Contemporary Drug Problems and the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, which began with a 2015 symposium at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, organized by co-editors Nancy D. Campbell and David Herzberg. The symposium called for incorporating gender analysis into the rapidly developing scholarship on drug use, drug trade, d…
Gender and Critical Drug Studies
This introduction to conjoined special issues of Contemporary Drug Problems and Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, the journal of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, began with a 2015 symposium at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), organized by co-editors Nancy D. Campbell and David Herzberg. The symposium called for incorporating gender analysis into the rapidly developing scholarship on drug use…
Recurring Epidemics of Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in America
Observers describe today’s “epidemic” of pharmaceutical drug abuse as a recent phenomenon, but we argue that it is only the most recent of three waves stretching back more than a century. During each wave, policies have followed a similar pattern: voluntary educational campaigns, followed by supply-side policing and—sometimes—public health responses that would today be understood as “harm reduction.” These experiences suggest that only broad-base…
The Story of PainPain
The history of the senses is flourishing these days, as recent attention in both the American Historical Review and the Journal of American History (among other forums) can attest.1 Historians of medicine have received a new invitation to the conversation with two excellent and thought-provoking books on the history of pain: Joanna Bourke's The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers and Keith Wailoo's Pain: A Political History. These very diff…
On Depression
Reviewed by: On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World by Nassir Ghaemi David Herzberg Nassir Ghaemi. On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ix + 215 pp. $24.95 (978-1-4214-0933-7). Nassir Ghaemi’s primer on existentialist psychiatry, On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World, is a thoughtful, ambitious, and flawed effort to p…
Allan V. Horwitz, Anxiety
Allan Horwitz's Anxiety: A Short History is a lucid, erudite and brisk intellectual history driven by a clear and persuasive central argument. Everything we most want to know about anxiety, Horwitz contends—what causes anxiety, where to draw the line between normal and pathological anxiety and how best to respond to anxiety—has changed over time, and any particular set of ideas ‘are social constructions that reflect a particular historical contex…
Boundaries in the History of Alcohol, Drugs, and Medicines
Dominique A. Tobbell. Pills, Power, and Policy
Perhaps no industry receives more critical attention, more deservedly, than the pharmaceutical industry. According to frighteningly persuasive exposés like Marcia Angell's The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It (2004) and David Healy's Pharmageddon (2012), drug companies use shoddy or dishonest research to produce worthless or even dangerous medicines, and then use their political and cultural clout to sel…
Laura D. Hirshbein, American Melancholy
In American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century, Laura Hirshbein joins a number of historians seeking to explain the emergence of depression as a major medical and cultural phenomenon in late twentieth-century America. Like Alan Horwitz, Peter Conrad, Gary Greenberg, David Healy and others (including myself), she takes a constructivist approach to the story. While the experiences of sadness, suffering and despair are …
Hidden in PLAIN SIGHT Marketing Prescription Drugs to Consumers in the Twentieth Century
Although the public health impact of direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising remains a subject of great controversy, such promotion is typically understood as a recent phenomenon permitted only by changes in federal regulation of print and broadcast advertising over the past two decades. But today's omnipresent ads are only the most recent chapter in a longer history of DTC pharmaceutical promotion (including the ghostwriting of popul…
The Pill You Love Can Turn on You
This essay analyzes the cultural politics of a late-1970s Valium addiction scare in the context of other episodes of American drug hysteria. Since the days of "Demon Rum," antidrug campaigns in the U.S. typically associated drugs with marginal populations such as immigrants, nonwhites, or the urban poor. The "drug menace" helped dramatize the threat posed by such "dangerous classes" to "our" society, while mobilizing state police power to control…
Drug Wars and Wonder Drugs
Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics. By Curtis Marez. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 347 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs. By Jonathan Michel Metzl. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 275 pages. $24.95 (cloth). $10.95 (paper). At a certain moment in the 1960s, it would not have been surprising to hear reports of counterculture avatars suc…
Slaying the Dragon
Slaying the Dragon tells the story of addiction treatment in the United States from the post-Revolution "alcoholic Republic" to the present day
Thinking through war
This paper examines the social thought of University of Wisconsin professors Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross during World War I. Like many of their fellow scholars, these three were actively involved in the pro‐war effort. Although their support for the war was strongly conditioned by personal and occupational considerations, the impact of their wartime service was not restricted to those realms. Their social thought, which th…
Attachment cognitions and college and work functioning two years later in late adolescent women
Gender and Critical Drug Studies
This introduction to conjoined special issues of Contemporary Drug Problems and Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, the journal of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, began with a 2015 symposium at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), organized by co-editors Nancy D. Campbell and David Herzberg. The symposium called for incorporating gender analysis into the rapidly developing scholarship on drug use…
Hidden in PLAIN SIGHT Marketing Prescription Drugs to Consumers in the Twentieth Century
Although the public health impact of direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising remains a subject of great controversy, such promotion is typically understood as a recent phenomenon permitted only by changes in federal regulation of print and broadcast advertising over the past two decades. But today's omnipresent ads are only the most recent chapter in a longer history of DTC pharmaceutical promotion (including the ghostwriting of popul…
The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease
As an international network of historians and social scientists who study approaches to the management of drugs across time and place, we have noticed the effort to redefine addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CRBD). The CRBD model is promoted as a route to destigmatize addiction and to empower individuals to access treatment that works within that model’s terms.1 CRBD usefully recognizes that brain-based neural adaptations place ind…
Attachment cognitions and college and work functioning two years later in late adolescent women
The Pill You Love Can Turn on You
This essay analyzes the cultural politics of a late-1970s Valium addiction scare in the context of other episodes of American drug hysteria. Since the days of "Demon Rum," antidrug campaigns in the U.S. typically associated drugs with marginal populations such as immigrants, nonwhites, or the urban poor. The "drug menace" helped dramatize the threat posed by such "dangerous classes" to "our" society, while mobilizing state police power to control…
Recurring Epidemics of Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in America
Observers describe today’s “epidemic” of pharmaceutical drug abuse as a recent phenomenon, but we argue that it is only the most recent of three waves stretching back more than a century. During each wave, policies have followed a similar pattern: voluntary educational campaigns, followed by supply-side policing and—sometimes—public health responses that would today be understood as “harm reduction.” These experiences suggest that only broad-base…
Thinking through war
This paper examines the social thought of University of Wisconsin professors Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross during World War I. Like many of their fellow scholars, these three were actively involved in the pro‐war effort. Although their support for the war was strongly conditioned by personal and occupational considerations, the impact of their wartime service was not restricted to those realms. Their social thought, which th…
Attachment cognitions and college and work functioning two years later in late adolescent women
Thinking through war
This paper examines the social thought of University of Wisconsin professors Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross during World War I. Like many of their fellow scholars, these three were actively involved in the pro‐war effort. Although their support for the war was strongly conditioned by personal and occupational considerations, the impact of their wartime service was not restricted to those realms. Their social thought, which th…
Slaying the Dragon
Slaying the Dragon tells the story of addiction treatment in the United States from the post-Revolution "alcoholic Republic" to the present day
Drug Wars and Wonder Drugs
Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics. By Curtis Marez. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 347 pages. $59.95 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs. By Jonathan Michel Metzl. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 275 pages. $24.95 (cloth). $10.95 (paper). At a certain moment in the 1960s, it would not have been surprising to hear reports of counterculture avatars suc…
The Pill You Love Can Turn on You
This essay analyzes the cultural politics of a late-1970s Valium addiction scare in the context of other episodes of American drug hysteria. Since the days of "Demon Rum," antidrug campaigns in the U.S. typically associated drugs with marginal populations such as immigrants, nonwhites, or the urban poor. The "drug menace" helped dramatize the threat posed by such "dangerous classes" to "our" society, while mobilizing state police power to control…
Hidden in PLAIN SIGHT Marketing Prescription Drugs to Consumers in the Twentieth Century
Although the public health impact of direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising remains a subject of great controversy, such promotion is typically understood as a recent phenomenon permitted only by changes in federal regulation of print and broadcast advertising over the past two decades. But today's omnipresent ads are only the most recent chapter in a longer history of DTC pharmaceutical promotion (including the ghostwriting of popul…
Laura D. Hirshbein, American Melancholy
In American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century, Laura Hirshbein joins a number of historians seeking to explain the emergence of depression as a major medical and cultural phenomenon in late twentieth-century America. Like Alan Horwitz, Peter Conrad, Gary Greenberg, David Healy and others (including myself), she takes a constructivist approach to the story. While the experiences of sadness, suffering and despair are …
Boundaries in the History of Alcohol, Drugs, and Medicines
Dominique A. Tobbell. Pills, Power, and Policy
Perhaps no industry receives more critical attention, more deservedly, than the pharmaceutical industry. According to frighteningly persuasive exposés like Marcia Angell's The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It (2004) and David Healy's Pharmageddon (2012), drug companies use shoddy or dishonest research to produce worthless or even dangerous medicines, and then use their political and cultural clout to sel…
Allan V. Horwitz, Anxiety
Allan Horwitz's Anxiety: A Short History is a lucid, erudite and brisk intellectual history driven by a clear and persuasive central argument. Everything we most want to know about anxiety, Horwitz contends—what causes anxiety, where to draw the line between normal and pathological anxiety and how best to respond to anxiety—has changed over time, and any particular set of ideas ‘are social constructions that reflect a particular historical contex…
On Depression
Reviewed by: On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World by Nassir Ghaemi David Herzberg Nassir Ghaemi. On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ix + 215 pp. $24.95 (978-1-4214-0933-7). Nassir Ghaemi’s primer on existentialist psychiatry, On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World, is a thoughtful, ambitious, and flawed effort to p…
Recurring Epidemics of Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in America
Observers describe today’s “epidemic” of pharmaceutical drug abuse as a recent phenomenon, but we argue that it is only the most recent of three waves stretching back more than a century. During each wave, policies have followed a similar pattern: voluntary educational campaigns, followed by supply-side policing and—sometimes—public health responses that would today be understood as “harm reduction.” These experiences suggest that only broad-base…
The Story of PainPain
The history of the senses is flourishing these days, as recent attention in both the American Historical Review and the Journal of American History (among other forums) can attest.1 Historians of medicine have received a new invitation to the conversation with two excellent and thought-provoking books on the history of pain: Joanna Bourke's The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers and Keith Wailoo's Pain: A Political History. These very diff…
Entitled to Addiction
This article rethinks the formative decades of American drug wars through a social history of addiction to pharmaceutical narcotics, sedatives, and stimulants in the first half of the twentieth century. It argues, first, that addiction to pharmaceutical drugs is no recent aberration; it has historically been more extensive than "street" or illicit drug use. Second, it argues that access to psychoactive pharmaceuticals was a problematic social ent…
Gender and Critical Drug Studies
This is an introduction to conjoined special issues of Contemporary Drug Problems and the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, which began with a 2015 symposium at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, organized by co-editors Nancy D. Campbell and David Herzberg. The symposium called for incorporating gender analysis into the rapidly developing scholarship on drug use, drug trade, d…
Gender and Critical Drug Studies
This introduction to conjoined special issues of Contemporary Drug Problems and Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, the journal of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, began with a 2015 symposium at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), organized by co-editors Nancy D. Campbell and David Herzberg. The symposium called for incorporating gender analysis into the rapidly developing scholarship on drug use…
Forty Years On
A New Era
Previous articleNext article FreeA New EraNancy Campbell, David Herzberg, and Lucas RichertNancy Campbell Search for more articles by this author , David Herzberg Search for more articles by this author , and Lucas Richert Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWelcome to the new(ish) SHAD, our f…
Bienvenido a este número especial
Previous articleNext article Free¡Bienvenido a este número especial!Nancy Campbell, David Herzberg, and Lucas RichertNancy Campbell Search for more articles by this author , David Herzberg Search for more articles by this author , and Lucas Richert Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreNow a yea…
Stuck in Traffic
Since the late twentieth century, two United Nations organizations have monitored the global trade in drugs from their respective perches in Geneva: the Essential Drugs Program of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). In 1988, the Essential Drugs Program published the first edition of the World Drug Situation, which narrates the many barriers preventing “essential” drugs (antibiotics, anti-e…
Chemically Imbalanced
Reviewed by: Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery by Joseph E. Davis David Herzberg Joseph E. Davis. Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 244 pp. $30.00 (978-0-226-68668-4). It can be difficult for pharmaceutical historians to know as much as we should about the single most important char…
Term 2 and Taking Stock
Previous articleNext article FreeTerm 2 and Taking StockNancy Campbell, David Herzberg, and Lucas RichertNancy Campbell Search for more articles by this author , David Herzberg Search for more articles by this author , and Lucas Richert Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe first issue of Th…
The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease
As an international network of historians and social scientists who study approaches to the management of drugs across time and place, we have noticed the effort to redefine addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CRBD). The CRBD model is promoted as a route to destigmatize addiction and to empower individuals to access treatment that works within that model’s terms.1 CRBD usefully recognizes that brain-based neural adaptations place ind…
Holly Karibo Rehab on the Range
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