On Monday, October 6th, Jeremy Greene delivered the 2025 Society of the Social History of Medicine’s Annual Lecture. The Lecture historically focuses on everyday technologies of health and medicine in the 20th century. Entitled “Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history,” SSHM notes that the talk “follows a series of pills, capsules, syringes, and diagnostic test-kits through spaces of production, circulation, consumption, and disposal, and lingers on practices of use, abuse, re-use, and refusal that entwine the material histories of these devices the complex agency of patients, caregivers, health practitioners, and a host of other stakeholders who shape their use-value in unexpected ways. Along the way Jeremy will try to portray some sort of retrospective coherence over a career that has not always seemed coherent in prospect, emphasizing what can be gained by focusing on everyday objects as points of departure for ethnographic as well as historical investigation. Drawing a line between the first paper he presented at SSHM as a second-year graduate student (on the different ways to understand why patients don’t take the medicines as prescribed) and his current book project (on the histories and futures of disposable medical technologies), the talk will reflect on modes of historical inquiry drawn from sources otherwise consigned to the dustbin.”