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'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
'From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma' – a college course explores nature's medicine cabinet and different ways of healingPeople for millennia have used what grows around them as medicine.LorenzoT81/iStock via Getty Images PlusText saying: Uncommon Courses, from The Conversation

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

“From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma”

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