{"id":10789,"date":"2014-11-05T21:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T02:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/?p=10789"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:54:20","slug":"active-history-blog-doctoral-student-christine-chisholm-thinking-thalidomide-transnational-history-canada-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2014\/active-history-blog-doctoral-student-christine-chisholm-thinking-thalidomide-transnational-history-canada-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Active History blog by doctoral student, Christine Chisholm, &#8220;Thinking about Thalidomide in Transnational History: Canada and South Africa&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>What was the global impact of thalidomide? On September 24th, the Department of History, the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies\/Disability Studies, and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University came together to host two speakers to Ottawa as part of a day-long meeting on the transnational history of the infamous drug thalidomide. Developed by the German company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grunenthal.com\/grt-web\/Grunenthal_Group\/115100044.jsp\">Chemie Gr\u00fcnenthal GmbH<\/a>, the drug was officially marketed from the mid-1950s to the early to mid-1960s under dozens of brand names. Dr. Susanne Klausen, medical historian and organizer of the event, pointed out in her introduction that thalidomide was a \u201cdrug in search of a disease.\u201d However, while pharmaceuticals marketed the drug as a cure for many symptoms, it has gained its notorious reputation because of its use as a remedy for morning sickness in pregnant women. Although the drug was advertised as being \u201ccompletely safe,\u201d it caused severe birth defects \u2013 including deformed and\/or absent organs, phocomelia, and several other life threatening deformities \u2013 in children whose pregnant mothers had taken the drug during the first trimester of pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the rest of Christine Chisholm&#8217;s blog go to <a title=\"Active History\" href=\"http:\/\/activehistory.ca\/2014\/10\/thinking-about-thalidomide-in-transnational-history-canada-and-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activehistory.ca\/2014\/10\/thinking-about-thalidomide-in-transnational-history-canada-and-south-africa\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was the global impact of thalidomide? On September 24th, the Department of History, the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies\/Disability Studies, and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University came together to host two speakers to Ottawa as part of a day-long meeting on the transnational history of the infamous drug thalidomide. 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