Joel Braslow is a psychiatrist and historian whose work focuses on the social, cultural, and scientific constitution of therapeutic practices in medicine and psychiatry. He is an associate professor of Psychiatry and History at UCLA and director of the UCLA Neuroscience History Arhives. His work examines twentieth-century American psychiatric practices, employing historical and health services research methods and drawing on a broad range of historical sources, including patient medical records, textbooks, and popular and professional advertisements for psychiatric medications. Dr. Braslow received his M.D. from Loma Linda University and his Ph.D. in History of Science from UCLA. His first book, "Mental Ills and Bodily Cures," examined the ways in which physicians employed somatic and biological therapies, and how these uses were shaped by social and cultural concerns. Currently, he is working on "Antipsychotic drugs: science, practice, and culture, a history of antipsychotic drugs" from the 1950s to the present. The primary aim of this project is to explore how social and cultural factors shape, and are shaped by, clinical and scientific practices. This project is funded by a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Career Development Award and aims to integrate methods from history, anthropology, and health services research.