With Merchants of Medicines I sought to write a new history of the British empire in the long eighteenth century emphasizing the centrality of medicines to extractive projects, bound labor, long-distance commerce, and manufacturing. Below, a thread of some arguments:

Including a high praise for Smoke Bellow's new album. Smoke Bellow are a favorite of mine, and I'm sad to see the project come to an end. But they go out on a high note!

also cc: @UChicagoPress

Very grateful that Merchants of Medicines has been selected for the 2024 Kremers Award from the @HistPharm! The work of past winners has been central to my growth as a historian, and I'm honored to now be listed alongside them. Thank you!! https://t.co/mVUr0GmrXv

And, on a personal note, @josh_levin & @stefanfatsis hearing you talk about DC high school hoops and Powerbar (among other local things) helped humanize the DMV for me when I moved here back in 2018. Thanks for that too!

I've got a paleography question for anyone still out there. These four words came up in two wills from the 1770s in the section referring to the property of the deceased. Any ideas as to what they are?

https://t.co/7WZjZMuimp #FreeEssay alert --Check out the conversation "Coercion and Colonial Science in the Atlantic World"

We definitely get into the "beyond" part, check it out!

To those historians remaining on this platform: I'm looking for the full text of the 1875 San Francisco Opium Den Ordinance for my class on the history of drugs. Does anyone have it or have a lead where I can find it? Many thanks!

Another bit of new work out there today on the @FolgerResearch's Collation Blog. I'm thinking about the many contested definitions of care across 18th-c institutions. https://t.co/8BALejDKwp

Very grateful for a fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library that is enabling some research on my next book this spring! I'm excited to start putting some of this research on care work out into the world.

#FolgerFellow Zachary Dorner (@zpdorner @UMDHistory) is a historian of early modern medicine who is interested in the commerce and labor underlying the provision of health.

There will also be a conversation between myself and several outstanding peers about science as coerced labor in an upcoming special issue of @labor_journal--if you're interested, look out for it in the new year!

Many thanks to @sethrockman, Alix Hui, and Lissa Roberts for organizing the conference (and the galvanizing conversations) from which this piece emerged.

In it I revisit some old research with fresh eyes and new tools to consider the range of labor just below the surface of the commercial archive of pharmacy (plus the implications for the histories of science, labor, and slavery).

I have a new piece on the enslaved and otherwise precarious workers of the pharmaceutical trade in the special issue of History of Science out today. https://t.co/Z7CGUgKmKV

this was a great collaboration -- glad to think about the archive of science as labor alongside Duygu and others

Really grateful to be part of the project! All the posts on @MMoR_KCL do such important pedagogical and analytical work.

Read Zachary Dorner's new blog 'Ordering Medicines and Ordering People on Caribbean Plantations', now live on our website! https://t.co/H4rBK3zlQ4 Huge thanks to @ZPDorner for this thought provoking piece of writing #earlymodern

Alert!!! Most excited to launch our second series of blog posts on sources related to the history of medicine, slavery & racemaking… @gianamar97 kicks off a season with posts forthcoming from @sm_schober @teresa_goeltl @ZPDorner Vicki heath & Carmel Ferragud!

Amplifying this call especially for historians of medicine and science who work on Early America/Atlantic World