EPISODE 13: SUZANNA REISS ON DRUG CONTROL, COCA-COLA, AND PHARMACEUTICALS
Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast July 1, 2015
Today’s guest discusses the history of the coca leaf and the U.S. drug control regime. Amongst other topics, we discuss the importance of coca to both Coca-Cola and Merck and the pharmaceutical industry. For Suzanna Reiss, this provides a way to interpret the history of capitalism across the mid-twentieth century and after.
Suzanna Reiss is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. She is author of We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire. You can read more about her work here.
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