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About Steve Beitler
My work as an historian of medicine focuses on how pain has been understood, treated, experienced, and represented. Before completing a doctorate at UC-San Francisco in 2016, I worked for 27 years as an executive speechwriter, financial communications manager, and government relations director at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent. I'm currently an Affiliated Research Scholar in UCSF's Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.Steve Beitler’s work in the history of medicine focuses on how pain has been understood, treated, experienced, and represented. His recently published articles examined the history of opiates in American football and surveyed the history of therapeutic drugs. He can be reached at steve@stevebeitler.com
NBN Episodes hosted by Steve:
October 12, 2022
Opium's Orphans
The global war on drugs began some 150 years before US President Richard Nixon launched the current chapter of America’s drug war in 1971. In Opium’s…
August 4, 2022
The Mind and the Moon
Why is our understanding of the mind so limited? How do cells become consciousness? What are the limitations of a biological model of the mind and it…
May 24, 2022
Marijuana on My Mind
Few substances have been researched as extensively, and debated as fiercely, as cannabis. In Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannab…
April 15, 2022
Undoing Drugs
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (Hachette Go, 2021) tells a long-running, but largely unknown, story of …
March 3, 2022
Beyond the Narrow Life
Kile M. Ortigo's Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide to Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration (Synergetic Press, 2021) addresses major issue…