Elizabeth Catte, "Pure America: Eugenics and th...
An interview with Elizabeth Catte
61 min
702
Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolit...
An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas
79 min
703
Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the G...
An interview with Eben Kirksey
59 min
704
Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History o...
An interview with Jeff Levin
51 min
705
Alicia Puglionesi, "Common Phantoms: An America...
Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century...
53 min
706
COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia:...
In Southeast Asia, the impact of COVID-19 has been particularly severe for migrant workers...
26 min
707
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Pe...
An interview with Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
58 min
708
Susan M. Reverby, "Co-Conspirator for Justice: ...
Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary career...
56 min
709
O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: Th...
O. Carter Snead defines for us what the term “public bioethics” encompasses and provides a much-needed genealogy of the field....
125 min
710
Abigail A. Dumes, "Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease...
Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy...
50 min
711
A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hid...
An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease, with this number expected to double by 2050...
76 min
712
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politi...
Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...
44 min
713
Transforming Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Vietnam...
Globally, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, with over 1 million cases detected annually. The disease is particularly worrisome in Vietnam...
23 min
714
Jeremy Snyder, "Exploiting Hope: How the Promis...
Snyder offers an in-depth study of hope's exploitation...
53 min
715
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illus...
Crews challenges us with an extensive psychological profile of the legend here revealed as scam artist....
Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease...
62 min
717
Rosamond Rhodes, "The Trusted Doctor: Medical E...
Rhodes explicates the sixteen specific duties that doctors take on when they join the profession...
47 min
718
Joshua Gans, "The Pandemic Information Gap and ...
Gans' central thesis is that "at their heart, pandemics are an information problem. Solve the information problem and you can defeat the virus”.
35 min
719
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women ...
Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...
28 min
720
Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of...
Just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself....
Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis?
63 min
722
Kelly Underman, "Feeling Medicine: How the Pelv...
Underman gives us a look inside these gynecological teaching programs, showing how they embody the tension between scientific thought and human emotion in medical education...
39 min
723
M. Newhart and W. Dolphin, "The Medicalization ...
Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs...
46 min
724
Marta Zaraska, "Growing Young: How Friendship, ...
Now you may be thinking to yourself, “100? I’m not sure how appealing that is.” In our interview, Zaraska has a surprising response for you...
38 min
725
Dan Royles, "To Make the Wounded Whole: The Afr...
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities...