'From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma' – a college course explores nature's medicine cabinet and different ways of healing
- Written by Heather McIlvaine-Newsad, Professor of Anthropology, Western Illinois University
People for millennia have used what grows around them as medicine.LorenzoT81/iStock via Getty Images Plus
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Title of course:
“From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma”
What prompted the idea for the course?
I’m from the...