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

About Steve Beitler

NBN Episodes hosted by Steve:

Opium's Orphans

The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs

P. E. Caquet

The Mind and the Moon

My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches

Daniel Bergner

Marijuana on My Mind

The Science and Mystique of Cannabis

Timmen Cermak

Undoing Drugs

The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction

Maia Szalavitz

Beyond the Narrow Life

A Guide to Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration

Kile M. Ortigo