His name is Bastien Delattre, he is a pharmacist and has been passionate regarding the history of health for several years. In 2018, he chose as his subject thesis on the history of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Nantes during the First World War ; a work that propelled him Laureate of the National Academy of Pharmacy in 2019. Since then, he has pursued an amateur research activity. In 2022, he had the idea of creating a podcast dedicated to the history of health and medical sciences. Its objective: to offer accessible content through the highlighting of research produced by the human sciences (history, sociology, etc.) as well as by the medical and biological sciences.
In January 2023, he therefore launched a podcast Apothicast « In its main format, he explains, I invite historians and health professionals around interviews to explore the history of health, medicine, pharmacy, and all other specialties and related sciences. The history of health is vast and exciting. It has the particularity of being a subject of study located at the border of two major fields. On the one hand, the medical and biological sciences, such as medicine, pharmacy, odontology, midwifery… and all the other medical specialties and related sciences. On the other, the human and social sciences”.
The first two podcasts will undoubtedly seduce your curious and demanding ear:
– When coca and cocaine were medicine, with Zoë Dubus [Ep. #1] : before becoming the drug we know today, cocaine, and coca (Erythroxylum cocaa plant native to South America whose leaves contain many alkaloids, including cocaine), have indeed a long therapeutic past, from the ancestral uses of pre-Columbian civilizations, until the beginning of the 20th century, in the West…
– Antonin Artaud and the laudanum of Sydenham, with Thierry Lefebvre [Ep. #2] : in this episode, it is a question of the history of laudanum, and therefore, of opium and morphine. But, more precisely, we are interested in a character known for his artistic talents, but also for the links he maintained with the medicine of his time, his mentally insane condition and the addiction he developed for the Sydenham laudanum: Antonin Artaud (1896-1948).
• Find all the episodes of the Apothicast here, as well as on the various listening platforms (Apple Podcast, Spotify, etc.). Don’t hesitate to subscribe, to rate the podcast on the platforms that have this option and to share the episodes around you.us !
