New Books in Medicine
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Joe Miller, "US of AA: How the Twelve Steps Hij...
In the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing...
48 min
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Babette Becker, "I Should Have Been Music" (Pag...
Becker recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960...
64 min
828
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization ...
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...
67 min
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Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Co...
Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one...
65 min
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David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: Ho...
Spiegelhalter's work dedicated to "improving the way that quantitative evidence is used in society.”
59 min
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Laura Cabrera, "Rethinking Human Enhancement: S...
Cabrera discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns...
78 min
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Emilia Nielsen, "Disrupting Breast Cancer Narra...
Nielsen argues that the happy stories of breast cancer survivors are so common that any other types of narrative almost require an apology...
21 min
833
Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disabil...
Handley-Cousins shows how disability was a necessary by-product of the U.S. Civil War...
45 min
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Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" ...
Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...
42 min
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Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vita...
Fredericks makes sense of the garbage-scape of Dakar, Senegal in the wake of the 2007 trash “revolts” against the city and country’s uneven and failing garbage infrastructure...
49 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Stephen Le, "100 Million Years of Food: What Ou...
There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health...
63 min
838
John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" ...
Russian medical researchers—along with their counterparts in France and Germany—were at the forefront of the struggle against cholera...
54 min
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Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Emp...
The remaking of Hanoi as a capital of French empire from the end of the nineteenth century had unintended consequences...
54 min
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Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and th...
Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...
53 min
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Claire Edington, "Beyond the Asylum: Mental Ill...
Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?
70 min
842
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Theodore Dalrymple, "False Positive: A Year of ...
Dalrymple recounts each week’s new edition of the Journal with an eye toward analytical errors and a culture of political correctness in regard to the handling of medical and public health issues...
43 min
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Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, ...
Behind every landmark drug is a story...
59 min
846
David Sinclair, "LifeSpan: Why We Age and Why W...
Do we have to grow old? Maybe not. David Sinclair explains...
57 min
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Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents...
Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...
67 min
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Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience ...
Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researchers on the neuroscience of addiction...
56 min
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Travis Rieder, "In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Person...
On a spring day in 2015, Dr. Travis Rieder’s life changed. A motorcycle accident, a shattered foot...
56 min
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Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste:...
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
45 min