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Carolyn Wolf-Gould et al., "A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Jun 16 • 1h 7m
Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security" (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Jun 7 • 1h 4m
Kathleen Miller, ed., "Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World" (Penn State UP, 2025)
Jun 3 • 36m
Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Jun 2 • 1h 5m
Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
May 31 • 1h 4m
Jaap de Roode, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 28 • 45m
Gina Leola Woolsey, "Fifteen Thousand Pieces" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
May 27 • 36m
Ewa Herbst, "Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
May 17 • 1h 26m
Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
May 16 • 28m
Edward L. Jones III, "Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder: What Really Killed the Crespi Twins?" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
May 6 • 1h 7m
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 28 • 1h 7m
Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Apr 23 • 1h 12m
Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
Apr 21 • 51m
Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Apr 4 • 1h 9m
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Apr 3 • 1h 1m
Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
Apr 2 • 47m
Alisha Ali et al., "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 26 • 55m
Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 24 • 1h 0m
John Trowsdale, "What the Body Knows: A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 18 • 39m
Zhiying Ma, "Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2025)
Mar 14 • 1h 2m
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 12 • 1h 12m
Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)
Mar 9 • 1h 11m
Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 8 • 43m
Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
Mar 7 • 1h 7m
Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)
Mar 2 • 1h 17m
Steven Lesk, "Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness" (Prometheus, 2023)
Feb 26 • 1h 5m
Nicole Lobdell, "X-Ray" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Feb 19 • 49m
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Feb 12 • 55m
Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)
Feb 10 • 59m
Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Feb 9 • 49m
Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
Feb 4 • 59m
Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Feb 3 • 1h 16m
Rachel Marie Niehuus, "An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jan 28 • 1h 8m
Erica Borgstrom and Renske Visser, "Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement" (Routledge, 2024)
Jan 26 • 59m
Casey Golomski, "God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Jan 22 • 1h 12m
Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 15 • 39m
Barbara J. Sahakian and Christelle Langley, "Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jan 13 • 31m
Lisa Doggett, "Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis" (Health Communications, 2023)
Jan 5 • 35m
Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jan 2 • 1h 4m
Rachel Louise Moran, "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jan 2 • 57m
Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Dec 27, 2024 • 1h 7m
Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Dec 20, 2024 • 43m
Postscript: Violence, Consent, and Coercion in American Football
Dec 16, 2024 • 1h 21m
Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Dec 11, 2024 • 46m
Who Cares? A Conversation with Emily Kenway
Dec 11, 2024 • 52m
Aisha M Beliso-de Jesús, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease" (Duke UP, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024 • 56m
Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 6, 2024 • 50m
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 5, 2024 • 1h 18m
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Dec 3, 2024 • 1h 4m
Cindy Ermus, "The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 3, 2024 • 53m
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024 • 54m
Daniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Nov 25, 2024 • 1h 3m
Public Healthcare Under Decentralized Governance in Indonesia and the Philippines
Nov 24, 2024 • 40m
Lauren D. Olsen, "Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024 • 53m
Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024 • 53m
George Severs, "Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024 • 50m
Muhammad H. Zaman, "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Nov 19, 2024 • 50m
Rachael Litherland and Philly Hare, "People with Dementia at the Heart of Research: Co-Producing Research through The Dementia Enquirers Model" (Jessica Kingsley, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024 • 53m
Meta-Practice (on Chinese Medicine)
Nov 11, 2024 • 57m
Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024 • 33m
Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 4m
Gareth Millward, "Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 5, 2024 • 1h 27m
Anneli Jefferson, "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" (Routledge, 2024)
Nov 4, 2024 • 1h 28m
Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Nov 3, 2024 • 54m
Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
Nov 2, 2024 • 32m
Sabina Faiz Rashid, "Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 29, 2024 • 55m
Stijn Vanheule, "Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers" (Other Press, 2024)
Oct 29, 2024 • 1h 3m
Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 7m
Johanna Hedva, "How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom" (Zando-Hillman Grad Books, 2024)
Oct 27, 2024 • 59m
Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Oct 23, 2024 • 1h 0m
S. L. Wisenberg, "The Adventures of Cancer Bitch" (Tortoise Books, 2024)
Oct 22, 2024 • 25m
Susan Grant, "Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2024 • 51m
Lois Peters Agnew, "Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024 • 25m
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 9, 2024 • 1h 21m
Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
Oct 8, 2024 • 1h 1m
Daniel J. Levitin, "Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives" (Dutton Books, 2020)
Oct 7, 2024 • 40m
Kyle Falcon, "Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Oct 6, 2024 • 41m
Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton, "Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Oct 5, 2024 • 58m
Mercy Ships (with Reanne Newquist)
Oct 1, 2024 • 57m
Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Sep 20, 2024 • 26m
Joy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Sep 18, 2024 • 42m
Matthew C. Ehrlich, "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Sep 11, 2024 • 44m
Mariana Craciun, "From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 8, 2024 • 1h 48m
Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)
Sep 7, 2024 • 1h 0m
John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Sep 4, 2024 • 1h 0m
Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Sep 2, 2024 • 53m
Ellen Hampton, "Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France" (LSU Press, 2023)
Aug 28, 2024 • 58m
Regina G. Kunzel, "In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 25, 2024 • 52m
Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 13, 2024 • 43m
Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Aug 12, 2024 • 45m
Anna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Aug 5, 2024 • 1h 40m
Robert Baker, "Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics" (MIT Press, 2024)
Aug 2, 2024 • 1h 2m
Ewa K. Bacon, "Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz" (Purdue UP, 2017)
Jul 29, 2024 • 1h 24m
Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Jul 27, 2024 • 56m
Fella Benabed, "Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024 • 52m
Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jul 26, 2024 • 53m
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Jul 24, 2024 • 1h 2m
Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 1m
Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Jul 18, 2024 • 28m
Stefanie Coché, "Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the "Third Reich," the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941-1963" (Routledge, 2024)
Jul 16, 2024 • 54m
Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jul 15, 2024 • 49m
Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 26m
Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024)
Jul 9, 2024 • 50m
Catherine Tan, "Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jul 6, 2024 • 45m
Elizabeth Aislinn O'Brien, "Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jul 5, 2024 • 53m
Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic
Jul 4, 2024 • 43m
Sigrid Schönfelder, "'Gold Fever' and Women: Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West" (Transcript, 2023)
Jul 3, 2024 • 45m
Pandemics Perspectives 15: The Dynamic Nature of Science
Jul 2, 2024 • 1h 16m
Holly Ashford, "Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982" (Routledge, 2022)
Jul 2, 2024 • 54m
Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Jun 30, 2024 • 53m
John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024)
Jun 26, 2024 • 49m
Paula S. De Vos, "Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Jun 23, 2024 • 1h 10m
Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Brill, 2023)
Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 13m
Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 18, 2024 • 59m
Dasha Kiper, "Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain" (Random House, 2023)
Jun 18, 2024 • 1h 4m
Carl Elliott, "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No" (Norton, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024 • 50m
Andrew McDowell, "Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Jun 10, 2024 • 1h 27m
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 8, 2024 • 1h 4m
Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)
Jun 2, 2024 • 58m
Tom Mueller, "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine" (Norton, 2023)
May 29, 2024 • 1h 9m
Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)
May 20, 2024 • 40m
Lucy Barnhouse, "Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
May 7, 2024 • 1h 9m
Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
May 6, 2024 • 56m
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 5, 2024 • 56m
Reiki and the Subtle Body, with Justin B. Stein
May 4, 2024 • 1h 2m
The Contagion of Covid Policy: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Freedom of Speech
May 3, 2024 • 57m
Christian Hansel, "Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains" (World Scientific, 2021)
Apr 30, 2024 • 1h 10m
Susan Partovi, "Renegade M.D.: A Doctor's Stories from the Streets" (Bookbaby, 2024)
Apr 21, 2024 • 1h 2m
Fumilayo Showers, "Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Apr 21, 2024 • 1h 2m
Jessica Cox, "Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (The History Press, 2023)
Apr 21, 2024 • 41m
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Apr 20, 2024 • 28m
Bobby Cherayil, "The Logic of Immunity: Deciphering an Enigma" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Apr 16, 2024 • 1h 7m
Lawson R. Wulsin, "Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 15, 2024 • 28m
Tana Jean Welch, "Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Apr 10, 2024 • 57m
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice" (FSG, 2021)
Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 3m
Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
Apr 10, 2024 • 51m
Greg Wrenn, "Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis" (Regalo Press, 2024)
Mar 27, 2024 • 52m
Neil Gong, "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 27, 2024 • 41m
Reducing Barriers to Language Assistance in Hospital
Mar 25, 2024 • 23m
Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Mar 25, 2024 • 59m
Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024 • 30m
Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 19, 2024 • 50m
Travis Rieder, "Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices" (Dutton, 2024)
Mar 13, 2024 • 37m
Kristine M. McCusker, "Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 2, 2024 • 55m
Jennifer Evans, "Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Mar 2, 2024 • 48m
Judith Pearson, "Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023)
Feb 27, 2024 • 58m
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, "Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2021)
Feb 26, 2024 • 1h 1m
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 21, 2024 • 40m
Alison M. Downham Moore, "The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 14, 2024 • 45m
Brian H. Williams, "The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
Feb 10, 2024 • 37m
Buddhist Medicine in Contemporary Times (with Pierce Salguero)
Feb 9, 2024 • 1h 18m
Elinor Cleghorn, "Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World" (Dutton, 2022)
Jan 28, 2024 • 55m
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024 • 28m
Alka Vaid Menon, "Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards" (U California Press, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024 • 50m
Camillo Leonardi, "Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Jan 23, 2024 • 52m
Patricio Simonetto, "A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jan 15, 2024 • 54m
Sunita Puri, "That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour" (Penguin, 2020)
Jan 14, 2024 • 1h 7m
Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 10, 2024 • 45m
Chinmay Tumbe, "The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
Jan 3, 2024 • 49m
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019
Jan 2, 2024 • 51m
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jan 1, 2024 • 56m
Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
Dec 30, 2023 • 56m
Helena Vissing, "Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 3m
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023 • 44m
Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace" (Yale UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023 • 1h 13m
Nessette Falu, "Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil" (Duke UP, 2023)
Dec 24, 2023 • 58m
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2023 • 1h 2m
Adrienne E. Strong, "Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania" (U California Press, 2020)
Dec 21, 2023 • 58m
Jenny Trinitapoli, "An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023 • 40m
Wayne Soon, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 5m
Katherine D. Von Schaik, "How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness" (Galen) (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 17, 2023 • 34m
Cristina A. Pop, "The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 22m
David Carey, Jr., "Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 13, 2023 • 46m
Alexandra Kitty, "A Different Track: Hospital Trains of the Second World War" (Heritage House, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023 • 29m
Mark Munsterhjelm, "Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023 • 33m
The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
Dec 9, 2023 • 32m
Self Help
Dec 7, 2023 • 20m
Emma K. Sutton, "William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Dec 5, 2023 • 37m
Linda Eckert, "Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 5, 2023 • 24m
Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 1, 2023 • 31m
Stephanie Convery, "After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne" (Penguin Australia, 2020)
Nov 27, 2023 • 58m
Fae Garland and Mitchell Travis, "Intersex Embodiment: Legal Frameworks Beyond Identity and Patienthood" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Nov 26, 2023 • 56m
Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Nov 22, 2023 • 1h 5m
Kay Wilson, "Mental Health Law: Abolish Or Reform?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 11, 2023 • 59m
Colin McFarlane, "Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife" (Verso, 2023)
Nov 7, 2023 • 46m
Linda L. Michaels et al.. "Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation: Humanizing Mental Health Policy and Practice" (Routledge, 2023)
Nov 7, 2023 • 52m
Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Nov 5, 2023 • 52m
Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Nov 5, 2023 • 33m
Ann C. Bracken, "Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery" (Charing Cross Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2023 • 1h 3m
Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023 • 48m
Katherine Mason, "The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 21, 2023 • 48m
Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023 • 1h 10m
Jay Bhattacharya on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Public Health Response
Oct 19, 2023 • 52m
Hyun Bang Shin et al., "COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a Post-pandemic World" (Ubiquity Press, 2021)
Oct 15, 2023 • 32m
E. Summerson Carr, "Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023 • 54m
Helen Rappaport, "In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Oct 13, 2023 • 1h 10m
Buddhist Healing in Contemporary Japan (with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon)
Oct 10, 2023 • 1h 2m
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill, "Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 9, 2023 • 1h 4m
Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023 • 40m
Scott Selberg, "Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Sep 21, 2023 • 44m
Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Sep 20, 2023 • 36m
Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Sep 19, 2023 • 39m
Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 17, 2023 • 34m
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023 • 32m
Situating Religion and Medicine (with Michael Stanley-Baker)
Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 6m
Gerald O'Brien, "Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 5, 2023 • 29m
Nancy L. Segal, "The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Sep 5, 2023 • 59m
The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis
Sep 3, 2023 • 44m
The Past and Present of Psychedelic Medicine
Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 10m
Jonathan Ablard, "Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983" (Ohio UP, 2008)
Sep 1, 2023 • 30m
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Aug 29, 2023 • 30m
Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Aug 28, 2023 • 52m
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023 • 56m
Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Aug 20, 2023 • 47m
Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
Aug 16, 2023 • 16m
Jason Weiner, "Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023 • 48m
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Aug 15, 2023 • 45m
The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
Aug 14, 2023 • 14m
Why Consumers Choose Private Over Public Health Services in Vietnam
Aug 10, 2023 • 17m
Michelle Daniel Jones and Elizabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)
Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 4m
Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)
Aug 8, 2023 • 49m
Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
Aug 6, 2023 • 53m
Jill L. Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons" (Southern Illinois UP, 2023)
Aug 3, 2023 • 54m
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 3, 2023 • 57m
Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Aug 2, 2023 • 55m
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 2, 2023 • 40m
Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Aug 1, 2023 • 36m
Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, "Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023 • 54m
The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
Jul 26, 2023 • 57m
Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jul 25, 2023 • 57m
Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Jul 23, 2023 • 41m
Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023 • 52m
Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 21, 2023 • 49m
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jul 15, 2023 • 44m
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
Jul 14, 2023 • 36m
Methadone and Covid-19
Jul 12, 2023 • 56m
Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 8, 2023 • 38m
Shortage
Jul 7, 2023 • 20m
Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 7, 2023 • 38m
Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
Jul 4, 2023 • 34m
Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Jul 3, 2023 • 58m
Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Jul 1, 2023 • 58m
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023 • 59m
Rebecca Whiteley, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023 • 38m
Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Jun 22, 2023 • 1h 11m
Doctor Ex Machina: AI in Medicine and its Pitfalls
Jun 13, 2023 • 1h 12m
Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Jun 10, 2023 • 1h 29m
Han Yu, "The Curious Human Knee" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 9, 2023 • 57m
James Kyung-Jin Lee, "Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority" (Temple UP, 2021)
Jun 8, 2023 • 26m
Marius Wamsiedel, "The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania" (Lexington, 2023)
Jun 8, 2023 • 59m
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Jun 6, 2023 • 1h 1m
César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, "Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jun 3, 2023 • 1h 12m
Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Jun 3, 2023 • 14m
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 1, 2023 • 38m
Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 29, 2023 • 52m
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 24, 2023 • 1h 6m
COVID-19 and the Biosecurity Surveillance Regime: A Conversation with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
May 23, 2023 • 56m
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
May 21, 2023 • 55m
The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
May 19, 2023 • 40m
Eugene Lipov and Jamie Mustard, "The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life" (BenBella Books, 2023)
May 18, 2023 • 41m
Misinformed: The Covid Lab Leak Theory and the Politics of Misinformation
May 17, 2023 • 1h 3m
America & Democracy Ep. 2: Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers
May 16, 2023 • 39m
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023 • 28m
Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023 • 1h 4m
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 3: Bita Moghaddam on Ketamine
May 12, 2023 • 30m
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia
May 11, 2023 • 33m
Michael Brown, "Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 10, 2023 • 1h 16m
Britta K. Ager, "The Scent of Ancient Magic" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
May 10, 2023 • 53m
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone
May 9, 2023 • 42m
Rapid Reviews: COVID-19
May 8, 2023 • 10m
Stephen G. Post, "Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
May 7, 2023 • 53m
Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture
May 2, 2023 • 32m
Ian Hembrow, "Ralph Edwards: Rare Events--The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines" (Springer, 2023)
Apr 30, 2023 • 32m
Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, "A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942" (SEA Program Publications, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023 • 57m
The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 2m
The History of Contraception
Apr 27, 2023 • 15m
Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
Apr 23, 2023 • 48m
Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease" (Yale UP, 2020)
Apr 21, 2023 • 48m
Cristina Mejia Visperas, "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" (NYU, 2022)
Apr 14, 2023 • 57m
Susan Burch, "Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions" (UNC Press, 2021)
Apr 14, 2023 • 22m
Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022)
Apr 3, 2023 • 40m
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Apr 2, 2023 • 57m
Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
Apr 2, 2023 • 44m
Life Extension Therapies
Mar 29, 2023 • 1h 9m
Declan Warde et al., "Safety As We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 1m
Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 27, 2023 • 49m
Tracy Livecchi and Liza Morton, "Healing Hearts and Minds: A Holistic Approach to Coping Well with Congenital Heart Disease" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 26, 2023 • 26m
Derek Hanley, "Photos from the Front Lines: A Year on the Streets of Alameda County" (2022)
Mar 25, 2023 • 52m
Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Mar 24, 2023 • 52m
Lee Trepanier, "Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID" (Routledge, 2022)
Mar 23, 2023 • 28m
Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023 • 1h 19m
Rosalynn A. Vega, "Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Mar 15, 2023 • 55m
Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)
Mar 12, 2023 • 1h 16m
H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 8, 2023 • 1h 1m
Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey
Mar 8, 2023 • 23m
Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Mar 6, 2023 • 50m
Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Mar 4, 2023 • 32m
Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 6m
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
Mar 2, 2023 • 44m
Arthur Kleinman, "Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine" (U California Press, 1997)
Mar 1, 2023 • 32m
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Feb 28, 2023 • 1h 36m
Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 6m
The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
Feb 21, 2023 • 37m
Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
Feb 19, 2023 • 40m
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Feb 19, 2023 • 1h 3m
Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
Feb 17, 2023 • 54m
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
Feb 13, 2023 • 56m
Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan
Feb 13, 2023 • 1h 0m
Marvin N. Olasky and Leah Savas, "The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652-2022" (Crossway, 2023)
Feb 11, 2023 • 59m
The History of Teletherapy
Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 4m
Alexandre I. R. White, "Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 43m
Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 27, 2023 • 59m
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023 • 1h 16m
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023 • 52m
Deafness “Cures” in History
Jan 22, 2023 • 1h 1m
Ciara Breathnach, "Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 10, 2023 • 1h 9m
Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jan 10, 2023 • 46m
John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 3, 2023 • 1h 17m
Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jan 1, 2023 • 1h 2m
Seeing Truth in Picturing the Pandemic:
Dec 29, 2022 • 1h 6m
Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022 • 1h 24m
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
Dec 26, 2022 • 1h 9m
Buddhist Medicine in Tibet: A Discussion with Bill McGrath
Dec 26, 2022 • 1h 21m
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022 • 54m
Neurasthenia
Dec 23, 2022 • 18m
Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022 • 44m
Shelley Fraser Mickle, "Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality" (Imagine, 2020)
Dec 17, 2022 • 1h 1m
Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Dec 12, 2022 • 1h 12m
Austin Ratner, "The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof" (Ipbooks, 2018)
Dec 12, 2022 • 53m
Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Dec 11, 2022 • 52m
Margaret S. Chisolm, "From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Dec 9, 2022 • 1h 15m
James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
Dec 6, 2022 • 43m
Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)
Dec 5, 2022 • 54m
Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
Dec 3, 2022 • 30m
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 1m
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 45m
Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 1h 9m
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 45m
Sri Aurobindo, the Psychic Being, and Integrative Medicine
Nov 27, 2022 • 1h 22m
Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022 • 52m
Elissa Bassist, "Hysterical: A Memoir" (Hachette, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022 • 27m
Michael Stein, "Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy" (UNC Press, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022 • 55m
97 Buddhist Medicine and Buddhish
Nov 18, 2022 • 1h 27m
Anita Guerrini, "Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 3m
Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022 • 1h 13m
Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
Nov 9, 2022 • 39m
Harris Solomon, "Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma" (Duke UP, 2022)
Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 22m
Mikkael A. Sekeres, "Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 4, 2022 • 58m
Ayan S. Mandal, "A Stethoscope for the Brain: Preventive Approaches to Protect the Mind" (New Degree Press, 2022)
Nov 4, 2022 • 52m
Robert Gottlieb, "Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 1, 2022 • 1h 23m
Sian E. Harding, "The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022 • 1h 7m
Mackenzie Cooley, "The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022 • 56m
Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 2m
Ayurveda and Alchemy: A Conversation with Dagmar Wujastyk
Oct 27, 2022 • 51m
Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022 • 54m
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 6m
Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 2m
Suicide Prevention: Grassroots Intervention for High-Risk Groups
Oct 4, 2022 • 39m
The Psychedelic World of Hollywood Hospital
Oct 3, 2022 • 34m
Michael Slouber, "Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 2m
Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
Sep 28, 2022 • 42m
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 26, 2022 • 38m
Martin Halliwell, "American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 0m
John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022 • 55m
Rick Strassman, "The Psychedelic Handbook: A Practical Guide to Psilocybin, LSD, Ketamine, MDMA, and DMT/Ayahuasca" (Ulysses Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022 • 56m
Sanjiv Chopra, "Coffee the Magical Elixir: Facts That Will Astound and Perk You Up" (Bookbaby, 2021)
Sep 14, 2022 • 36m
Sarah Lamb, "Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Sep 9, 2022 • 1h 0m
Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
Sep 7, 2022 • 49m
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
Sep 2, 2022 • 1h 3m
The Heroin Clinic
Sep 1, 2022 • 53m
Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
Aug 30, 2022 • 1h 20m
Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health" (UNC Press, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022 • 1h 9m
Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022 • 51m
Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022 • 47m
Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022 • 51m
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Aug 24, 2022 • 1h 7m
Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
Aug 16, 2022 • 46m
Lindy S. F. Hern, "Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Aug 12, 2022 • 1h 21m
Katherine L. Carroll, "Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Aug 9, 2022 • 47m
Daniel Bergner, "The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches" (Ecco, 2022)
Aug 4, 2022 • 37m
Culturally Competent Health Care, Equality in Health Care: The Case of Muslims and Jews in the UK
Jul 27, 2022 • 29m
Gonçalo Santos, "Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 25, 2022 • 1h 36m
Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jul 22, 2022 • 1h 15m
Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 20, 2022 • 45m
Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
Jul 15, 2022 • 57m
Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022 • 48m
Jennifer J. Hill, "Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022 • 50m
Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra, "Conquer Your Diabetes: Prevention, Control, Remission" (2022)
Jul 8, 2022 • 41m
“Vaccine: The Human Story”: A Chat with Historian and Podcaster Annie Kelly
Jul 8, 2022 • 1h 14m
Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
Jul 8, 2022 • 24m
Matthew Clark, "Botanical Ecstasies: Psychoactive Plant Formulas in India and Beyond" (Psychedelic Press, 2021)
Jul 7, 2022 • 59m
Sarah Fox, "Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2022)
Jul 7, 2022 • 39m
Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jul 4, 2022 • 54m
Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jul 1, 2022 • 43m
Christina Ramos, "Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 8m
Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 29, 2022 • 53m
Susan H. Brandt, "Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jun 29, 2022 • 1h 0m
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022 • 47m
Bharat Jayram Venkat, "At the Limits of Cure" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 23, 2022 • 1h 20m
Natalie Lira, "Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s" (U California Press, 2021)
Jun 22, 2022 • 56m
David M. Greer, "Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 1m
Tehmton S. Mistry, "The 24th Mile: An Indian Doctor's Heroism in War-torn Burma" (HarperCollins, 2021)
Jun 21, 2022 • 39m
Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 24m
Marga Vicedo, "Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Jun 17, 2022 • 55m
A. J. Lees, "Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology" (Notting Hill Editions, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022 • 1h 4m
R. John Aitken, "The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 13, 2022 • 1h 2m
Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Jun 10, 2022 • 45m
Timothy J. Jorgensen, "Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 5m
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
Jun 6, 2022 • 58m
Andrew Bickford, "Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 3, 2022 • 1h 2m
Jason Sion Mokhtarian, "Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 2, 2022 • 54m
Steven G. Epstein, "The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 30, 2022 • 1h 1m
Andrew Doig, "This Mortal Coil: A History of Death" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
May 27, 2022 • 1h 16m
Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 24, 2022 • 56m
Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
May 23, 2022 • 33m
Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2021)
May 23, 2022 • 59m
Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra, "Conquer Your Diabetes: Prevention, Control, Remission" (2022)
May 17, 2022 • 50m
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 13, 2022 • 1h 4m
Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral, "The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison" (Columbia UP, 2022)
May 12, 2022 • 1h 8m
Guy Beiner, "Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 12, 2022 • 58m
Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
May 11, 2022 • 58m
Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 10, 2022 • 41m
Mark Henick, "So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience" (HarperCollins, 2021)
May 9, 2022 • 48m
Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
May 4, 2022 • 1h 1m
Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
Apr 29, 2022 • 1h 8m
Anthony Cerulli, "The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India" (U California Press, 2022)
Apr 28, 2022 • 35m
Anthony Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2022 • 56m
Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)
Apr 28, 2022 • 46m
Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
Apr 27, 2022 • 58m
Jennifer K. Seman, "Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 36m
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945" (U California Press, 2018)
Apr 21, 2022 • 1h 10m
Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal
Apr 20, 2022 • 56m
Rod Tanchanco, "First Patients: The Incredible True Stories of Pioneer Patients" (First Hawk, 2022)
Apr 20, 2022 • 59m
Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 18, 2022 • 40m
Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022 • 51m
Robert A Jacobs, "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha" (Yale UP, 2022)
Apr 13, 2022 • 1h 10m
The Future of Life Expectancy: A Discussion with Angus Deaton
Apr 12, 2022 • 39m
Marcus Kaiser, "Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 8, 2022 • 43m
Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Apr 5, 2022 • 1h 3m
The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
Apr 5, 2022 • 49m
Natali Valdez, "Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 30, 2022 • 1h 3m
Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID
Mar 30, 2022 • 1h 4m
Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)
Mar 30, 2022 • 1h 18m
Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Mar 30, 2022 • 46m
Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
Mar 25, 2022 • 1h 15m
Pandemic Perspectives 3: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn
Mar 23, 2022 • 1h 6m
Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022)
Mar 22, 2022 • 1h 8m
Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi, "Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 18, 2022 • 29m
Understanding the Drivers of Vaccine Acceptance in Southeast Asia
Mar 18, 2022 • 22m
Pandemic Perspectives 2: A Conversation with Stephen Scherer
Mar 16, 2022 • 44m
Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 0m
Annabel Streets, "52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2022)
Mar 14, 2022 • 48m
Maryam Ziaee, "Big Data Analytics Adoption in Pharmaceutical Advanced Manufacturing"
Mar 10, 2022 • 33m
Pandemic Perspectives 1: A Conversation with Miguel Nicolelis
Mar 9, 2022 • 1h 4m
Carly D. McKay, "The Mental Impact of Sports Injury" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 2m
Kile M. Ortigo, "Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide to Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration" (Synergetic Press, 2021)
Mar 3, 2022 • 39m
Jessie Singer, "There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 8m
The Future of Sleep: A Discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk
Mar 1, 2022 • 45m
Piers Gooding, "A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 25, 2022 • 1h 4m
Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022)
Feb 18, 2022 • 56m
Marissa Mika, "Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda" (Ohio UP, 2021)
Feb 18, 2022 • 55m
Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
Feb 16, 2022 • 1h 0m
In Science We Trust?: An insider Conversation with Health Policy Reporter, Fran Kritz
Feb 15, 2022 • 48m
Rachel Pagones, "Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love" (Brevis, 2021)
Feb 14, 2022 • 51m
Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
Feb 11, 2022 • 1h 28m
Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 9m
Liz P. Y. Chee, "Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China" (Duke UP, 2021)
Feb 9, 2022 • 53m
Karen Derris, "Storied Companions: Trauma, Cancer, and Finding Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives" (Wisdom Publications, 2021)
Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 5m
Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
Feb 9, 2022 • 43m
Rudolf Ramm, "Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession [1942]" (Springer, 2019)
Feb 8, 2022 • 44m
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
Feb 7, 2022 • 47m
Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
Feb 7, 2022 • 42m
Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Feb 3, 2022 • 1h 6m
Charles Vidich, "Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine" (Praeger, 2021)
Feb 3, 2022 • 1h 2m
Kenneth Anderson, "Strychnine and Gold: The Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States" (2021)
Feb 2, 2022 • 1h 0m
Daniel Groll, "Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 6m
Carla Yanni, "The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2007)
Jan 28, 2022 • 35m
Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
Jan 27, 2022 • 50m
Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
Jan 21, 2022 • 22m
Bradley Schurman, "The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny" (Harper Business, 2022)
Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 4m
Rebekah Lee, "Health, Healing and Illness in African History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jan 17, 2022 • 1h 19m
Harry Yi-Jui Wu, "Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization" (MIT Press, 2021)
Jan 14, 2022 • 1h 11m
Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
Jan 13, 2022 • 43m
Academic or Trade Publisher? How Do You Decide?
Jan 12, 2022 • 46m
Peter A. Swenson, "Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jan 12, 2022 • 36m
Amy C. Sullivan, "Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jan 7, 2022 • 50m
COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan
Jan 7, 2022 • 25m
Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)
Jan 4, 2022 • 1h 10m
Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)
Jan 3, 2022 • 51m
Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 31, 2021 • 1h 1m
Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
Dec 28, 2021 • 1h 3m
Paul Ian Steinberg, "Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Mental Health Practice" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 27, 2021 • 41m
Rebecca J. Lester, "Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America" (U California Press, 2019)
Dec 21, 2021 • 1h 4m
Migual Nicolelis, “Minds and Machines” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021 • 1h 31m
Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021 • 42m
Timothy M. Yang, "A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Dec 17, 2021 • 1h 44m
Thom Hartmann, "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
Dec 16, 2021 • 25m
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, "Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All" (New Village Press, 2020)
Dec 15, 2021 • 29m
Janna Coomans, "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021 • 50m
Alison Ritter, "Drug Policy" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 14, 2021 • 55m
Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 10, 2021 • 1h 3m
Noémi Tousignant, "Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
Dec 9, 2021 • 49m
Britt Rusert, "Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture" (NYU Press, 2017)
Dec 9, 2021 • 1h 8m
Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico, "Risk: A User's Guide" (Portfolio, 2021)
Dec 8, 2021 • 1h 0m
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 8, 2021 • 44m
David Herzberg, "White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Dec 6, 2021 • 1h 0m
Anne Hugon, "Etre mère en situation coloniale: Gold Coast (années 1910-1950)" (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020)
Dec 6, 2021 • 1h 6m
Matthew Walker, “Sleep Insights” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021 • 1h 47m
Craig W. Stevens, "The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings" (Academic Press, 2020)
Nov 24, 2021 • 57m
Mental Health in Academia: A Conversation with Roy Richard Grinker
Nov 23, 2021 • 1h 23m
Scott Cunningham, "Causal Inference: The Mixtape" (Yale UP, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021 • 1h 8m
Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021 • 59m
Nicole C. Bourbonnais, "Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Nov 19, 2021 • 52m
David A. B. Murray, "Living with HIV in Post-crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021 • 54m
John S. Tregoning, "Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them" (Oneworld, 2021)
Nov 16, 2021 • 47m
Naomi Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 15, 2021 • 33m
Kristin Hussey, "Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Nov 11, 2021 • 1h 5m
Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021)
Nov 10, 2021 • 41m
Diego Armus and Pablo Gómez, "The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Nov 8, 2021 • 1h 13m
Renee Ann Cramer, "Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Nov 4, 2021 • 52m
Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Nov 1, 2021 • 51m
Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 29, 2021 • 2h 27m
Elyn Saks, “Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 28, 2021 • 1h 30m
Chinmay Murali and Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 27, 2021 • 56m
Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021)
Oct 22, 2021 • 1h 3m
Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern on STEMM Communications
Oct 20, 2021 • 1h 25m
Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky, "The Opioid Epidemics in the United States: Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021 • 59m
Seth M. Siegel, "Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink" (Thomas Dunne, 2020)
Oct 18, 2021 • 41m
Allyson Day, "The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Oct 15, 2021 • 1h 1m
Hannah Zeavin, "The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 14, 2021 • 49m
A Conversation About Reproductive Health and Abortion Studies
Oct 14, 2021 • 1h 8m
Kevin A. Sabet, "Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" (Forefront Books, 2021)
Oct 13, 2021 • 1h 0m
Anne Pollock, "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Oct 11, 2021 • 58m
Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 11, 2021 • 1h 6m
Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 8, 2021 • 1h 33m
Ranae Lenor Hanson, "Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Oct 5, 2021 • 54m
Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Oct 1, 2021 • 1h 27m
Kyle Harper, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 1, 2021 • 48m
Sandro Galea, "The Contagion Next Time" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 30, 2021 • 26m
Lisa T. Sarasohn, "Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021 • 1h 0m
Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Sep 24, 2021 • 1h 0m
Heather Pool, "Political Mourning: Identity and Responsibility in the Wake of Tragedy" (Temple UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2021 • 1h 4m
Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 22, 2021 • 1h 6m
Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sep 22, 2021 • 58m
Aleksandra Bartoszko, "Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical Other" (Routledge, 2021)
Sep 20, 2021 • 58m
Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, "The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance" (HarperOne, 2021)
Sep 16, 2021 • 1h 17m
Laura Aguirre, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery" (Pegasus, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021 • 59m
Mariska van Sprundel, "Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 14, 2021 • 1h 3m
Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 2m
Stephen Hinshaw, “Understanding ADHD” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 42m
Cynthia J. Cranford, "Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances" (ILR Press, 2020)
Sep 8, 2021 • 1h 18m
Jeffrey Kuhlman and Daniel Peach, "Transformative Healthcare: A Physician-Led Prescription to Save Thousands of Lives and Millions of Dollars" (Advent Health, 2021)
Sep 8, 2021 • 58m
Charles C. Camosy, "Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality" (New City Press, 2021)
Sep 6, 2021 • 1h 38m
Jessica Fanzo, "Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Sep 3, 2021 • 36m
Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
Sep 1, 2021 • 50m
Mara Buchbinder, "Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America" (U California Press, 2021)
Aug 31, 2021 • 53m
Jennifer L. Lambe, "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (UNC Press, 2017)
Aug 31, 2021 • 1h 25m
Josephine Ensign, "Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Aug 30, 2021 • 41m
Donald A. Barr, "Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Aug 30, 2021 • 40m
Rohit Khanna, "Misunderstanding Health: Making Sense of America's Broken Health Care System" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Aug 24, 2021 • 36m
Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 24, 2021 • 2h 10m
Uta Frith, “Exploring Autism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 23, 2021 • 1h 35m
Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, "Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
Aug 19, 2021 • 1h 1m
Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
Aug 17, 2021 • 1h 12m
Leslie Anne Hadfield, "A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
Aug 17, 2021 • 1h 6m
Charles Foster, “Defined By Relationship” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 17, 2021 • 1h 31m
Martha Few et al., "Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
Aug 16, 2021 • 1h 33m
Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, "Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 16, 2021 • 45m
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 16, 2021 • 1h 1m
Camillia Kong, "Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Aug 16, 2021 • 1h 10m
Mikkael A. Sekeres, "When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia" (MIT Press, 2020)
Aug 16, 2021 • 1h 0m
Gowri Vijayakumar, "At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Aug 10, 2021 • 1h 1m
Anna Ruddock, "Special Treatment: Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Aug 10, 2021 • 1h 11m
Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Aug 6, 2021 • 1h 9m
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 5, 2021 • 56m
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Aug 4, 2021 • 1h 38m
Chinmay Tumbe, "Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
Aug 2, 2021 • 49m
Michele Siegel and Judith Brisman, "Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends" (Harper Perennial, 2021)
Aug 2, 2021 • 48m
Moshe Halbertal, "Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jul 27, 2021 • 31m
Chris A. Barcelos, "Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health" (U California Press, 2020)
Jul 23, 2021 • 1h 0m
Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)
Jul 22, 2021 • 48m
John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
Jul 19, 2021 • 1h 8m
Karma R. Chávez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 16, 2021 • 1h 5m
Angus Fletcher, "Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021 • 1h 16m
Lindy McDougall, "The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021 • 43m
Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel, "Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
Jul 9, 2021 • 1h 2m
Martin Summers, "Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 7, 2021 • 1h 0m
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 2, 2021 • 57m
stef m. shuster, "Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jun 30, 2021 • 53m
Claire L. Jones, "The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Jun 29, 2021 • 48m
Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jun 28, 2021 • 1h 4m
No Choice: Why Is It So Hard to Get an Abortion in the South?
Jun 22, 2021 • 25m
Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux, "Challenging Choices: Canada's Population Control in the 1970s" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Jun 15, 2021 • 48m
C. Kong and A. Ruck Keene, "Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005" (Jessica Kingsley, 2018)
Jun 10, 2021 • 50m
George Szmukler, "Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jun 9, 2021 • 1h 30m
Rachel Stuart on the Unmet Health Needs of London Sex Workers
Jun 8, 2021 • 1h 11m
Rob Boddice, "Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 2, 2021 • 59m
Jeanne Simons and Sabine Oishi, "Behind the Mirror: The Story of a Pioneer in Autism Treatment and Her Work with Children on the Spectrum" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Jun 1, 2021 • 35m
Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 31, 2021 • 1h 6m
Randolph M. Nesse, "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry" (Dutton, 2019)
May 28, 2021 • 57m
Tim Lockley, "Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 26, 2021 • 53m
Jenny Bangham, "Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
May 26, 2021 • 59m
Nicholas Freudenberg, "At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 25, 2021 • 35m
Keeping Lungs Healthy: A Discussion of Respiratory Health in Vietnam with Professor Gregory Fox
May 20, 2021 • 15m
Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 17, 2021 • 54m
David Hardin, "Standpipe: Delivering Water in Flint" (Belt, 2021)
May 17, 2021 • 48m
Bijal P. Trivedi, "Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever" (Benbella, 2020)
May 13, 2021 • 1h 2m
Lucy van de Wiel, "Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging" (NYU Press, 2020)
May 12, 2021 • 1h 18m
David Weill, "Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant" (Post Hill Press, 2021)
May 11, 2021 • 54m
Jason Karlawish, "The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
May 11, 2021 • 1h 4m
LaTonya J. Trotter, "More Than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State" (Cornell UP, 2020)
May 10, 2021 • 1h 1m
Of Rice and Men: How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam
May 6, 2021 • 17m
Susan M. Reverby, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (UNC Press, 2013)
May 5, 2021 • 44m
Mary A. Brazelton, "Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Apr 30, 2021 • 1h 1m
Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Apr 29, 2021 • 58m
Tales of Unsung Heroes: How Thailand’s Village Health Volunteers Helped Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 29, 2021 • 23m
Paloma Fernández Pérez. "The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s" (Emerald, 2021)
Apr 28, 2021 • 49m
James Doucet-Battle, "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Apr 23, 2021 • 1h 0m
Charley E. Willison, "Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 15, 2021 • 32m
Jason Manning, "Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Apr 6, 2021 • 41m
Alli Spotts-de Lazzer, "MeaningFULL: 23 Life-Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, and Body Image Issues" (Unsolicited Press, 2021)
Apr 6, 2021 • 57m
Lucas Richert, "Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 5, 2021 • 47m
Agnes Arnold-Forster, "The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 31, 2021 • 1h 2m
Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
Mar 30, 2021 • 1h 2m
Katherine E. Standefer, "Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life" (Little, Brown Spark, 2020)
Mar 30, 2021 • 38m
Sara Ritchey, "Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Mar 29, 2021 • 1h 0m
Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris, "Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 26, 2021 • 1h 29m
Lorenzo Servitje, "Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Mar 23, 2021 • 1h 7m
Courtney E. Thompson, "An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 19, 2021 • 51m
Alisha Rankin, "The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science" (Alisha Rankin, 2021)
Mar 18, 2021 • 1h 9m
Mitchell L. Hammond, "Epidemics and the Modern World" (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
Mar 17, 2021 • 1h 45m
Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2021 • 1h 29m
Dying from Despair in the USA: A Discussion with Anne Case
Mar 15, 2021 • 57m
Xiaoping Fang, "China's Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society Under Mao" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Mar 9, 2021 • 55m
Edzard Ernst, "Chiropractic: Not All That It's Cracked Up to Be" (Springer, 2020)
Mar 8, 2021 • 50m
Gabriel Winant, "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 8, 2021 • 1h 26m
John M. Janzen, "Health in a Fragile State. Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo" (Wisconsin UP, 2019)
Mar 8, 2021 • 1h 8m
J. Jureidini and L. B. McHenry, "The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research" (Wakefield Press, 2020)
Mar 3, 2021 • 57m
Han Yu, "Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 3, 2021 • 1h 12m
Exploring STEM, Insulin Research, and Why We Get Sick
Feb 25, 2021 • 1h 2m
Tracie White and Ronald W. Davis, "The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Hunt to Cure the Illness That Stole His Son" (Hachette, 2021)
Feb 24, 2021 • 1h 3m
Imitating Viruses: How Technology Can Help Us Be Better Prepared For Pandemics
Feb 24, 2021 • 19m
R. A. Bennette, "Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany During World War One" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Feb 23, 2021 • 1h 3m
Seema Yasmin, "Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Feb 22, 2021 • 26m
Jacob Steere-Williams, "The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
Feb 19, 2021 • 57m
Kenneth V. Faunce, "Heavy Traffic: The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 17, 2021 • 29m
Hannah Marcus, "Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Feb 16, 2021 • 51m
Henry T. Greely, "CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans" (The MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 15, 2021 • 1h 1m
Paul Ian Steinberg, "Psychoanalysis in Medicine: Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Medical Care" (Routledge, 2020)
Feb 12, 2021 • 55m
Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
Feb 11, 2021 • 51m
Jack Price, "The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Feb 10, 2021 • 1h 4m
Thomas Pradeu, "Philosophy of Immunology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Feb 10, 2021 • 1h 4m
Ethan Lou, "Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended" (Signal, 2020)
Feb 5, 2021 • 36m
Mical Raz, "Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way" (UNC Press Books, 2020)
Feb 5, 2021 • 47m
Theresia Hofer, "Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform" (U Washington Press, 2018)
Jan 29, 2021 • 1h 20m
Brian Deer, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Jan 25, 2021 • 54m
R. Douglas Fields, "Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better" (BenBella, 2020)
Jan 19, 2021 • 1h 11m
Andrew Jewett, "Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jan 19, 2021 • 41m
Chris Hamby, "Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice" (Little Brown, 2020)
Jan 14, 2021 • 36m
T. Maschi and K. Morgen, "Aging Behind Prison Walls: Studies in Trauma and Resilience" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 12, 2021 • 1h 2m
Devadas Krishnadas, "Confronting Covid-19: A Strategic Playbook for Leaders and Decision Makers" (MCIA, 2020)
Jan 7, 2021 • 41m
Robert Baker, "The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 6, 2021 • 1h 11m
Jonathan Sadowsky, "The Empire of Depression: A New History" (Polity, 2020)
Jan 5, 2021 • 1h 14m
Elizabeth Catte, "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" (Belt, 2021)
Dec 29, 2020 • 1h 4m
Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity Into the Twenty-First Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Dec 28, 2020 • 1h 20m
Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
Dec 23, 2020 • 1h 1m
Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020 • 54m
Alicia Puglionesi, "Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Dec 18, 2020 • 56m
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020 • 1h 1m
COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia: A Discussion with Emeritus Professor Philip Hirsch
Dec 17, 2020 • 26m
Susan M. Reverby, "Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman" (UNC Press, 2020)
Dec 11, 2020 • 59m
O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 9, 2020 • 2h 6m
Abigail A. Dumes, "Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine" (Duke UP, 2020)
Dec 8, 2020 • 52m
A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 4, 2020 • 1h 19m
Transforming Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Vietnam: A Discussion with Professor Patrick Brennan
Dec 3, 2020 • 23m
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
Dec 3, 2020 • 47m
Jeremy Snyder, "Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 1, 2020 • 55m
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
Nov 25, 2020 • 1h 2m
Dwaipayan Banerjee, "Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 24, 2020 • 1h 4m
Rosamond Rhodes, "The Trusted Doctor: Medical Ethics and Professionalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 23, 2020 • 50m
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 17, 2020 • 31m
Joshua Gans, "The Pandemic Information Gap and the Brutal Economics of Covid-19" (MIT Press, 2020)
Nov 17, 2020 • 38m
Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Nov 16, 2020 • 44m
Ido Hartogsohn, "American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century" (MIT Press, 2020)
Nov 13, 2020 • 1h 6m
Kelly Underman, "Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training" (NYU Press, 2020)
Nov 10, 2020 • 42m
Marta Zaraska, "Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100" (Appetite/Random House, 2020)
Oct 26, 2020 • 41m
M. Newhart and W. Dolphin, "The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience" (Routledge, 2018)
Oct 26, 2020 • 49m
Dan Royles, "To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS" (UNC Press, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020 • 1h 12m
Rene Almeling, "GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health" (U California Press, 2020)
Oct 15, 2020 • 34m
Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond" (Transcript Verlag, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020 • 59m
Kat Arney, "Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal" (Benbella Books, 2020)
Oct 9, 2020 • 50m
Tamara McClintock Greenberg, "Treating Complex Trauma: Combined Theories and Methods" (Springer, 2020)
Oct 9, 2020 • 41m
John Whysner, "The Alchemy of Disease" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Oct 8, 2020 • 49m
Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease" (Yale UP, 2020)
Oct 7, 2020 • 57m
Jennifer J. Carroll, "Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Oct 6, 2020 • 57m
Jennifer Lisa Koslow, "Exhibiting Health: Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 5, 2020 • 48m
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 30, 2020 • 1h 4m
Wendy Wood, "Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick" (FSG, 2019)
Sep 28, 2020 • 1h 0m
James L. Nolan, Jr., "Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 24, 2020 • 41m
Linville Meadows, "A Spiritual Pathway to Recovery from Addiction: A Physician’s Journey of Discovery" (The Meadows Farm, 2020)
Sep 23, 2020 • 58m
Robert Kolker, "Hidden Valley Road: Inside The Mind of An American Family" (Doubleday, 2020)
Sep 21, 2020 • 46m
Christopher Robertson, "Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What can be Done About" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Sep 21, 2020 • 51m
Joseph E. Davis, "Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Sep 18, 2020 • 58m
Zachary Dorner, "Merchants of Medicine: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long 18th Century" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Sep 18, 2020 • 1h 0m
Gerald Posner, "Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
Sep 14, 2020 • 1h 20m
Wendy Moore, "No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I (Basic Books, 2020)
Sep 7, 2020 • 56m
Charles Allan McCoy, "Diseased States: Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Sep 4, 2020 • 50m
Paul Offit, "Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far" (HarperCollins, 2020)
Sep 3, 2020 • 32m
Nicole Hassoun, "Global Health Impact: Expanding Access to Essential Medicines" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 31, 2020 • 39m
Mary Augusta Brazelton, "Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Aug 31, 2020 • 1h 35m
György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 27, 2020 • 1h 35m
Danielle Giffort, "Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Aug 11, 2020 • 33m
Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science" (Penguin Books, 2020)
Aug 10, 2020 • 1h 18m
Nicole Piemonte, "Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice" (MIT Press, 2018)
Aug 7, 2020 • 50m
Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)
Aug 6, 2020 • 25m
Nathan Carlin, "Pastoral Aesthetics: A Theological Perspective on Principlist Bioethics" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 5, 2020 • 49m
Mari K. Webel, "The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019)
Aug 3, 2020 • 1h 20m
Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)
Aug 3, 2020 • 47m
Olivia Weisser, "ll Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England" (Yale UP, 2015)
Jul 31, 2020 • 42m
Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2020 • 46m
Theresa Kaminski, "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War: One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights" (Lyons Press, 2020)
Jul 28, 2020 • 51m
Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jul 27, 2020 • 1h 2m
Luz María Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: The Medical Profession in Mexico 1800-1870" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018)
Jul 16, 2020 • 1h 1m
Luke Messac, "No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 16, 2020 • 1h 0m
Alyson McGregor, "Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health" (Hachette, 2020)
Jul 13, 2020 • 57m
Sabine Hildebrandt, "The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich" (Berghahn, 2017)
Jul 9, 2020 • 25m
Saul J. Weiner, "On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Jul 8, 2020 • 50m
He Bian, "Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 2, 2020 • 1h 23m
Natalie Kimball, "An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jun 23, 2020 • 1h 11m
B. L. Johnson and M. M. Quinlan, "You’re Doing it Wrong! Mothering, Media and Medical Expertise" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Jun 19, 2020 • 1h 22m
Elisheva A. Perelman, "American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
Jun 12, 2020 • 1h 32m
Nandini Patwardhan, "Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions" (Story Artisan Press, 2020)
Jun 12, 2020 • 1h 6m
Jonathan Gelber, "Tiger Woods’s Back and Tommy John’s Elbow" (Skyhorse, 2019)
Jun 10, 2020 • 37m
Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jun 8, 2020 • 1h 13m
Jay Timothy Dolmage, "Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race" (OSU Press, 2018)
Jun 8, 2020 • 1h 10m
Casey Schwartz, "Attention: A Love Story" (Pantheon, 2020)
Jun 4, 2020 • 42m
Controlling the Scientific Narrative: Randomized Controlled Trials and The Manipulation of “Control”
Jun 3, 2020 • 30m
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 2, 2020 • 2h 0m
Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
Jun 2, 2020 • 40m
Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
Jun 1, 2020 • 1h 0m
Dealing with COVID-19: The Perils of Using Previous Crises as a Reference Point
May 20, 2020 • 27m
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships" (Stanford UP, 2020) )
May 11, 2020 • 1h 11m
Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life" (U California Press, 2020)
Apr 30, 2020 • 46m
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020 • 59m
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, "Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling" (Thick Press, 2020)
Apr 23, 2020 • 51m
Lloyd B. Minor, "Discovering Precision Health" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
Apr 22, 2020 • 58m
Richard G. Tedeschi, "Posttraumatic Growth: Theory, Research and Applications" (Routledge, 2018)
Apr 21, 2020 • 1h 0m
Baptiste Brossard, "Forgetting Items: The Social Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Apr 20, 2020 • 49m
Carlo Caduff, "The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger" (U California Press, 2015)
Apr 16, 2020 • 48m
Sara E. Davies, "Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Apr 15, 2020 • 49m
Travis Lupick, "Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction" (Arsenal, 2108)
Apr 8, 2020 • 53m
George Scialabba, "How To Be Depressed" (U Penn Press, 2020)
Apr 8, 2020 • 35m
Ray Dorsey, "Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action" (Public Affairs, 2020)
Apr 6, 2020 • 42m
Owen Whooley, "On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Apr 3, 2020 • 1h 0m
Baptiste Brossard, "Why do We Hurt Ourselves? Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life" (Indiana UP, 2018)
Mar 30, 2020 • 48m
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020 • 52m
Melissa Kravetz, "Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics and Professional Identity" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
Mar 17, 2020 • 1h 0m
Tania Jenkins, "Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Mar 16, 2020 • 49m
Travis Bell et al., "CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic" (Lexington, 2019)
Mar 16, 2020 • 59m
Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering" (U California Press, 2020)
Mar 13, 2020 • 59m
Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 10, 2020 • 26m
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020 • 42m
Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir" (Mad Creek Books, 2018)
Feb 24, 2020 • 36m
Daniel Skinner, "Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Feb 24, 2020 • 32m
Francesca Minerva, "The Ethics of Cryonics: Is It Immoral to be Immortal" (Palgrave, 2018)
Feb 13, 2020 • 58m
David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe, "Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America" (UC Press, 2020)
Feb 5, 2020 • 37m
Ronald Epstein, "Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity" (Scribner, 2018)
Feb 3, 2020 • 38m
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020 • 37m
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
Jan 24, 2020 • 40m
Christina Adams, "Camel Crazy" (New World Library, 2019)
Jan 23, 2020 • 50m
Nicci Gerrard, "The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting" (Penguin, 2019)
Jan 22, 2020 • 36m
Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jan 15, 2020 • 48m
Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique" (U Penn Press, 2018)
Jan 14, 2020 • 50m
Joe Miller, "US of AA: How the Twelve Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism" (Chicago Review Press, 2019)
Jan 7, 2020 • 51m
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
Dec 18, 2019 • 1h 10m
Babette Becker, "I Should Have Been Music" (Page Publishing, 2018)
Dec 18, 2019 • 1h 7m
Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
Dec 17, 2019 • 1h 6m
David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data" (Basic, 2019)
Dec 13, 2019 • 1h 2m
Laura Cabrera, "Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Dec 12, 2019 • 1h 21m
Emilia Nielsen, "Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
Dec 11, 2019 • 24m
Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Dec 5, 2019 • 48m
Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
Dec 4, 2019 • 52m
Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
Dec 4, 2019 • 45m
Stephen Le, "100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today" (Picador, 2016)
Dec 3, 2019 • 1h 5m
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 3, 2019 • 57m
John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Nov 29, 2019 • 57m
Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Nov 26, 2019 • 1h 0m
Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880" (UNC Press, 2019)
Nov 15, 2019 • 56m
Claire Edington, "Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Nov 13, 2019 • 1h 12m
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 3, 2019 • 38m
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019 • 32m
Theodore Dalrymple, "False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine" (Encounter Books, 2019)
Oct 17, 2019 • 46m
Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine" (Abrams Press, 2019)
Oct 14, 2019 • 1h 2m
David Sinclair, "LifeSpan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
Oct 4, 2019 • 1h 0m
Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905" (UNC Press, 2016)
Sep 26, 2019 • 1h 10m
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
Sep 19, 2019 • 1h 0m
Travis Rieder, "In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids" (Harper Collins, 2019)
Sep 11, 2019 • 58m
Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)
Sep 9, 2019 • 46m
Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 12, 2019 • 54m
Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Aug 5, 2019 • 53m
Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social History" (NYU Press, 2018)
Aug 2, 2019 • 23m
Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945" (U Texas Press, 2016)
Jul 30, 2019 • 1h 13m
Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good" (Columbia UP, 2016)
Jul 26, 2019 • 23m
Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jul 26, 2019 • 37m
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality" (U California Press, 2019)
Jul 26, 2019 • 28m
Alex Broadbent, "Philosophy of Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 19, 2019 • 28m
Katie Batza, "Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Jul 15, 2019 • 33m
Robin Scheffler, “A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jul 4, 2019 • 40m
Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Jun 24, 2019 • 57m
Pauline W. Chen, "Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality" (Vintage, 2008)
Jun 21, 2019 • 42m
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jun 11, 2019 • 1h 9m
Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak" (Springer, 2018)
Jun 7, 2019 • 28m
Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
May 29, 2019 • 56m
James Crossland, "War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
May 27, 2019 • 1h 5m
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
May 10, 2019 • 44m
Eric Topol, "Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again" (Basic Books, 2019)
May 7, 2019 • 41m
Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans" (Yale UP, 2019)
May 2, 2019 • 38m
Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient" (UNC Press, 2016)
Apr 25, 2019 • 51m
James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Apr 24, 2019 • 1h 7m
Kate Brown, "Manuel for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" (Norton, 2019)
Apr 19, 2019 • 45m
Lukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Apr 17, 2019 • 51m
Robert A. Voeks, "The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Apr 4, 2019 • 48m
Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth from America's Opioid and Suicide Epidemic" (Radius Books, 2018)
Apr 1, 2019 • 59m
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019 • 32m
Joseph Jarvis, "The Purple World: Healing the Harm in American Health Care" (Scrivener Books, 2018)
Mar 15, 2019 • 51m
Jessica Hardin, "Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Mar 14, 2019 • 1h 24m
Carl S. Armato, "A Future With Hope: An Inspiring Guide to Overcoming Diabetes" (Carl S. Armato, 2018)
Mar 5, 2019 • 50m
Janis Powers, "Health Care: Meet The American Dream" (River Grove Books, 2018)
Mar 4, 2019 • 58m
Peter Hotez, "Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Feb 7, 2019 • 42m
Dave Chase, "The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call: Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here is How We Take It Back" (Health Rosetta Media, 2018)
Jan 22, 2019 • 49m
Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise" (U California Press, 2017)
Jan 11, 2019 • 1h 2m
Julian Gill-Peterson, "Histories of the Transgender Child" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Jan 8, 2019 • 1h 4m
Lindsey Fitzharris, "The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine" (Scientific American, 2017)
Jan 7, 2019 • 47m
William B. Young and Stephen D. Silberstein, "Navigating Life with Migraine and Other Headaches" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 31, 2018 • 29m
Paul A. Offit, "Do You Believe in Magic?: Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural" (Harper, 2014)
Dec 28, 2018 • 52m
Stephan J. Guyenet, "The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat" (Flatiron Books, 2017)
Dec 19, 2018 • 1h 4m
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Dec 19, 2018 • 43m
Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Dec 17, 2018 • 1h 12m
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, "The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Nov 28, 2018 • 1h 0m
Nivedita Lakhera, “Pillow of Dreams” (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017)
Nov 21, 2018 • 57m
Shobita Parthasarathy, “Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Nov 21, 2018 • 1h 1m
Hugh Cagle, “Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Oct 22, 2018 • 59m
Robert A. Wilson, “The Eugenic Mind Project” (MIT Press, 2017)
Oct 15, 2018 • 1h 7m
Dániel Margócsy, et al., “The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions” (Brill, 2018)
Oct 11, 2018 • 1h 3m
Theodore M. Porter, “Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Oct 11, 2018 • 54m
Hervé Guillemain, “Schizophrenics in the Twentieth Century: The Side Effects of History” (Alma, 2018)
Oct 9, 2018 • 41m
Hilary A. Smith, “Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Sep 25, 2018 • 1h 10m
Joshua Sharfstein, “The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Sep 21, 2018 • 43m
Josh Luke, “Health-Wealth: 9 Steps To Financial Recovery” (ForbesBooks, 2018)
Sep 19, 2018 • 53m
Andrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Sep 13, 2018 • 34m
Seth Archer, “Sharks Upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai’i, 1778-1855” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Sep 4, 2018 • 1h 26m
Larisa Jašarević, “Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt” (Indiana UP, 2017)
Aug 24, 2018 • 58m
Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams, “What’s Making Our Children Sick?” (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017)
Aug 23, 2018 • 1h 28m
Beth Macy, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America” (Little, Brown & Company, 2018)
Aug 21, 2018 • 32m
Susan Greenfield, “You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity” (Notting Hill Editions, 2016)
Aug 21, 2018 • 38m
Paul Offit, “Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Aug 17, 2018 • 50m
Jacob Levine, “Cannabis Discourse: Facts and Opinions in Context” (Jacob Levine, 2018)
Aug 13, 2018 • 1h 7m
Michael Kearney, “The Nest in the Stream: Lessons from Nature on Being with Pain” (Parallax Press, 2018)
Aug 10, 2018 • 59m
Dorothy H. Crawford, “Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 9, 2018 • 50m
Marsha MacDowell, Clare Luz, and Beth Donaldson, “Quilts and Health” (Indiana UP, 2017)
Jul 25, 2018 • 58m
Pablo Gomez, “The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic” (UNC Press, 2017).
Jul 24, 2018 • 53m
Edward Khantzian, “Treating Addiction: Beyond the Pain” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
Jul 23, 2018 • 48m
Randi Hutter Epstein, “Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything” (Norton, 2018)
Jul 18, 2018 • 44m
Sam Kean, “The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code” (Back Bay, 2013)
Jul 10, 2018 • 50m
Joanna Radin, “Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Jul 4, 2018 • 47m
Adam Tanner, “Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records” (Beacon Press, 2017)
Jun 28, 2018 • 56m
Londa Schiebinger, “Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Jun 27, 2018 • 42m
Daisy Deomampo, “Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India” (NYU Press, 2016)
Jun 21, 2018 • 49m
Stephen Klasko, “Bless This Mess: A Picture Story of Healthcare in America” (Lulu Publishing, 2018)
Jun 15, 2018 • 43m
Melanie A. Kiechle, “Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America” (U Washington Press, 2017)
Jun 11, 2018 • 57m
Jonathan W. Marshall, “Performing Neurology: The Dramaturgy of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
May 29, 2018 • 56m
Lydia Kang, “Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything” (Workman Publishing Company, 2017)
May 22, 2018 • 56m
Martha Few, “For All Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala” (U Arizona Press, 2015)
May 18, 2018 • 1h 5m
Toby Cosgrove, “The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World’s Leading Health Care Organizations” (McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)
May 17, 2018 • 59m
Laura Spinney, “Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World” (PublicAffairs, 2017)
May 9, 2018 • 44m
John J. Pitney, “The Politics of Autism: Navigating the Contested Spectrum” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)
May 8, 2018 • 50m
Christy Ford Chapin, “Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
May 2, 2018 • 1h 2m
Eric Yarbrough, “Transgender Mental Health” (American Psychiatric Association, 2018)
Apr 30, 2018 • 51m
Sam Kean, “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons” (Little, Brown and Co., 2015)
Apr 26, 2018 • 58m
Jenny Reardon, “The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Knowledge and Justice after the Genome” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Apr 20, 2018 • 1h 8m
Samuel Harrington, “At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life” (Grand Central Life & Style, 2018)
Apr 20, 2018 • 1h 3m
Jonathan Engel, “Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Apr 19, 2018 • 29m
Susan M. Squier, “Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor” (Duke UP, 2017)
Apr 17, 2018 • 46m
Thomas Morris, “The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations” (Thomas Dunne, 2018)
Apr 11, 2018 • 1h 3m
Carolyn Day, “Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Apr 10, 2018 • 52m
Halee Fischer-Wright, “Back to Balance: The Art, Science, and Business of Medicine” (Disruption Books, 2017)
Apr 5, 2018 • 56m
Mara Buchbinder, “All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain” (U California Press, 2015)
Apr 4, 2018 • 1h 5m
Molly Ladd-Taylor, “Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
Mar 28, 2018 • 50m
Robert Pearl, “Mistreated: Why We Think Were Getting Good Health Care and Why We’re Usually Wrong” (PublicAffairs, 2017)
Mar 27, 2018 • 1h 12m
Urmi Engineer Willoughby, “Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteeth-Century New Orleans” (LSU Press, 2017)
Mar 23, 2018 • 42m
Jonathan D. Quick, “The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It” (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)
Mar 16, 2018 • 49m
Jamila Michener, “Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 12, 2018 • 24m
Andrew Lees, “Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment” (Notting Hill Editions, 2017)
Mar 12, 2018 • 1h 3m
Henry Jay Przybylo, “Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia” (W.W. Norton, 2017)
Mar 7, 2018 • 1h 0m
Shiri Noy, “Banking on Health: The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Feb 28, 2018 • 1h 4m
Anita Johnston, “Eating in the Light of the Moon” (Gurze Books, 2000)
Feb 22, 2018 • 50m
Howard I. Kushner, “On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
Feb 14, 2018 • 49m
Kim Yi Dionne, “Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Feb 6, 2018 • 42m
Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton, “Managing Madness” (U Manitoba Press, 2017)
Jan 31, 2018 • 55m
Zoe Wool, “After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed” (Duke UP, 2015)
Jan 29, 2018 • 1h 27m
Samuel Totten, “Sudan’s Nuba Mountains People Under Siege” (McFarland, 2017)
Jan 24, 2018 • 1h 7m
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Dec 29, 2017 • 59m
Sarah D. Phillips, “Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine” (Indiana UP, 2010)
Dec 14, 2017 • 46m
Carolyn Sufrin, “Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
Dec 1, 2017 • 1h 5m
Carla Joinson, “Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians” (U. Nebraska, 2016)
Nov 8, 2017 • 48m
Katherine Paugh, “The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Oct 30, 2017 • 42m
Leigh Straw, “After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I” (UWA Publishing, 2017)
Oct 13, 2017 • 15m
Gareth M. Thomas, “Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic” (Routledge, 2017)
Aug 15, 2017 • 42m
Claire D. Clark, “The Recovery Revolution” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Jul 28, 2017 • 1h 6m
Mark Solms, “The Feeling Brain: Selected Papers in Neuropsychoanalysis” (Karnac, 2015)
Jul 3, 2017 • 56m
Daniel P. Keating, “Born Anxious: The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity” (St. Martin’s Press, 2017)
Jul 3, 2017 • 58m
Oscar Fernandez, “The Calculus of Happiness” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Jun 11, 2017 • 53m
Megha Amrith, “Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia” (NIAS Press, 2016)
May 22, 2017 • 42m
Sharrona Pearl, “Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
May 18, 2017 • 1h 8m
Amy Ziettlow and Naomi Cahn, “Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss” (Oxford UP, 2017)
May 18, 2017 • 56m
J. C. McKeown, “A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Apr 29, 2017 • 49m
Grace Davie, “Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Apr 19, 2017 • 1h 0m
Susanna L. Blumenthal, “Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Apr 18, 2017 • 1h 3m
Amit Prasad, “Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India” (MIT, 2014)
Apr 18, 2017 • 58m
John Hudak, “Marijuana: A Short History” (Brookings, 2016)
Apr 15, 2017 • 38m
Eugene Raikhel, “Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic” (Cornell UP, 2016)
Apr 11, 2017 • 59m
Colleen Derkatch, “Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
Mar 29, 2017 • 1h 4m
Susan E. Cayleff, “Nature’s Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Mar 28, 2017 • 57m
Linda Craighead, “The Appetite Awareness Workbook: How to Listen to Your Body and Overcome Bingeing, Overeating, and Obsession with Food” (New Harbinger, 2006)
Mar 23, 2017 • 45m
Kathleen McAuliffe, “This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society” (Mariner Books, 2017)
Mar 21, 2017 • 39m
Norman Ohler, “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Mar 8, 2017 • 52m
Ericka Johnson, ed. “Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Feb 24, 2017 • 35m
Matthew James Crawford, “The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800” (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
Feb 23, 2017 • 1h 3m
Andrew Scull, “Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Jan 20, 2017 • 54m
Projit Bihari Mukharji, “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Science: (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 16, 2017 • 1h 6m
Philip Rosenbaum, “Making our Ideas Clear: Pragmatism in Psychoanalysis” (Information Age Publishing, 2015)
Jan 4, 2017 • 50m
Elizabeth Barnes, “The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jan 3, 2017 • 1h 9m
Claudia Malacrida, “A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Albertas Eugenic Years” (U of Toronto Press, 2015)
Dec 29, 2016 • 56m
Ann Bracken, “Mind, Body, Baby” (Yellow Kite Books, 2016)
Dec 29, 2016 • 48m
Alisha Brosse, “End the Insomnia Struggle” (New Harbinger, 2016)
Dec 12, 2016 • 45m
Jessica van Horssen, “A Town Called Asbestos” (UBC Press, 2016)
Dec 12, 2016 • 40m
Robert Aronowitz, “Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty” (U. Chicago Press, 2015)
Dec 9, 2016 • 1h 10m
Ruth Rogaski, “Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China” (U. California Press, 2014 reprint)
Dec 7, 2016 • 49m
Jean-Germain Gros, “Healthcare Policy in Africa” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Dec 2, 2016 • 1h 35m
Anthony M. Petro, “After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Dec 2, 2016 • 51m
Robert Brain, “The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (U. of Washington Press, 2015)
Nov 12, 2016 • 1h 8m
Orna Ophir, “On the Borderland of Madness: Psychosis, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry in Postwar USA” (Routledge, 2015)
Nov 7, 2016 • 1h 1m
Robert Peckham, “Epidemics in Modern Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Nov 6, 2016 • 49m
Roman Sieler, “Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Oct 28, 2016 • 1h 17m
Ahmed Ragab, “The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, Charity” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Sep 21, 2016 • 36m
James Pennebaker and Joshua Smyth, “Opening Up by Writing it Down: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain” (Guilford Press, 2016)
Sep 19, 2016 • 56m
Greg Eghigian, “The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany” (U. of Michigan Press, 2015)
Sep 9, 2016 • 49m
Andrew Schulman, “Waking the Spirit: A Musician’s Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul (Picador 2016)
Sep 8, 2016 • 49m
Sam Quinones, “Dreamland: The True Tale of American’s Opiate Epidemic” (Bloomsbury Press, 2015)
Sep 8, 2016 • 57m
Carol Gignoux, “Your Innovator Brain: The Truth About ADHD” (Balboa Press, 2016)
Aug 26, 2016 • 1h 3m
Anne Mac Lellan, “Dorothy Stopford Price: Rebel Doctor” (Irish Academic Press, 2014)
Aug 25, 2016 • 58m
Sabine Arnaud, “On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
Jul 5, 2016 • 1h 7m
Miranda Brown, “The Art of Medicine in Early China: The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jul 5, 2016 • 54m
Mark Navin, “Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Epistemology, Ethics, and Health Care” (Routledge, 2016)
Jul 1, 2016 • 1h 4m
Samuel Morris Brown, “Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human” (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Jun 29, 2016 • 1h 9m
Saul J. Weiner and Alan Schwartz, “Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care” (Oxford University Press 2016)
Jun 22, 2016 • 1h 5m
Gabriel Mendes, “Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Jun 15, 2016 • 1h 42m
Daniel E. Dawes, “150 Years of ObamaCare” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
May 30, 2016 • 24m
Rebecca Lemov, “Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity” (Yale University Press, 2015)
Apr 27, 2016 • 55m
John M. Chamberlain, “Medical Regulation, Fitness to Practice and Revalidation: A Critical Introduction” (Policy Press, 2015)
Mar 10, 2016 • 37m
Carin Berkowitz, “Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Feb 16, 2016 • 1h 4m
Jamie Koufman, “Dr. Koufman’s Acid Reflux Diet” (Katalitix, 2015)
Feb 3, 2016 • 56m
Ronald Chase, “Schizophrenia: A Brother Finds Answers in Biological Science” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
Jan 26, 2016 • 58m
Christopher Bollas, “When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia” (Yale University Press, 2015)
Dec 21, 2015 • 55m
Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2015)
Dec 18, 2015 • 1h 9m
Nick Hopwood, “Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Nov 30, 2015 • 46m
Jorg Matthias Determann, “Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2015)
Nov 29, 2015 • 1h 3m
Andrea Celenza, “Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios” (Routledge, 2014)
Nov 10, 2015 • 53m
Anita Guerrini, “The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Nov 4, 2015 • 1h 6m
Darian Leader, “Strictly Bipolar” (Penguin, 2013)
Nov 3, 2015 • 40m
Miriam Solomon, “Making Medical Knowledge” (Oxford, 2015)
Oct 15, 2015 • 1h 4m
Eugene Raikhel, Todd Meyers, Emily Yates-Doerr, “Somatosphere.net”
Oct 13, 2015 • 1h 1m
Gillian Isaacs Russell, “Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy” (Karnac, 2015)
Oct 13, 2015 • 55m
John Kinder, “Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Oct 6, 2015 • 4m
Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, and Francis Lee, “Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sep 26, 2015 • 51m
Brett Hendrickson, “Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo” (NYU Press, 2014)
Sep 17, 2015 • 47m
Kristin Peterson, “Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria” (Duke UP, 2015)
Sep 10, 2015 • 1h 4m
Stefan Ecks, “Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India” (NYU Press, 2013)
Aug 19, 2015 • 1h 20m
Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo” (Lexington Books, 2014)
Aug 19, 2015 • 1h 6m
William Davies, “The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being” (Verso, 2015)
Aug 18, 2015 • 44m
Alexandra Minna Stern, “Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
Aug 10, 2015 • 1h 10m
Eva Hemmungs Wirten, “Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information” (U of Chicago, 2015)
Aug 1, 2015 • 1h 5m
MK Czerwiec, et al., “Graphic Medicine Manifesto” (Penn State UP, 2015)
Jul 24, 2015 • 1h 18m
Jonathan Eig, “The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution” (Norton, 2014)
Jul 3, 2015 • 50m
Charis Thompson, “Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research” (MIT Press, 2013)
Jun 8, 2015 • 1h 13m
Beatrix Hoffman, “Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930” (U of Chicago, 2012)
May 28, 2015 • 56m
Todd Meyers, “The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy” (U of Washington Press, 2013)
May 22, 2015 • 1h 7m
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May 20, 2014 • 1h 0m
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May 16, 2014 • 1h 10m
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Mar 16, 2014 • 1h 18m
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Feb 20, 2014 • 1h 1m
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Dec 22, 2011 • 1h 4m
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Nov 15, 2011 • 50m
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