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Neuroscience
March 3, 2021
Mind Thief
The Story of Alzheimer's
Han Yu
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Alzheimer’s disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world’s most common causes of death. Alzheimer’s lingers for years, with patients’ outward appearance unaffected while their cognitive functions …
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Medicine
March 3, 2021
The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine
Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research
Jon Jureidini and Leemon B. McHenry
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
An exposé of the corruption of medicine by the pharmaceutical industry at every level, from exploiting the vulnerable destitute for drug testing, through manipulation of research data, to disease mongering …
Academic Life
February 25, 2021
Exploring STEM, Insulin Research, and Why We Get Sick
A Discussion with Benjamin Bikman
Benjamin Bikman
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Neuroscience
February 24, 2021
The Puzzle Solver
A Scientist's Desperate Hunt to Cure the Illness That Stole His Son
Tracie White and Ronald W. Davis
Hosted by Victoria Reedman
Based on a viral article, the gripping medical mystery story of Ron Davis, a world-class Stanford geneticist who has put his career on the line to find the cure for …
German Studies
February 23, 2021
Diagnosing Dissent
Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany During World War One
Rebecca Ayako Bennette
Hosted by Michael O'Sullivan
Although physicians during World War I, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders such as shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness by men unwilling to cope with …
Medicine
February 19, 2021
The Filth Disease
Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England
Jacob Steere-Williams
Hosted by Claire Clark
Typhoid fever is a food- and water-borne infectious disease that was insidious and omnipresent in Victorian Britain. It was one of the most prolific diseases of the Industrial Revolution. There …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
February 17, 2021
Heavy Traffic
The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective
Kenneth V. Faunce
Hosted by Lucas Richert
Much of the world's politics revolve around questions about the development of the international market for drugs; the roles merchants, government officials, and drug manufacturers played in shaping this market …
Medicine
February 12, 2021
Psychoanalysis in Medicine
Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Medical Care
Paul Ian Steinberg
Hosted by Alec Kacew
In today’s program, Dr. Paul Steinberg, a psychiatrist and clinical professor at the University of British Columbia, discusses his recently released book Psychoanalysis in Medicine: Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary …
Caribbean Studies
February 11, 2021
The Right to Live in Health
Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
Daniel A. Rodríguez
Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation, The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), focuses …
Medicine
February 10, 2021
The Future of Brain Repair
A Realist`s Guide to Stem Cell Therapy
Jack Price
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
A scientist assesses the potential of stem cell therapies for treating such brain disorders as stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. Stem cell therapies are the subject of enormous hype …
Philosophy
February 10, 2021
Philosophy of Immunology
Thomas Pradeu
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Vaccines make us wholly or partly immune to disease, such as Covid-19. But what is it to be immune? What is an immune system, and what does it do? In …
Medicine
February 5, 2021
Abusive Policies
How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way
Mical Raz
Hosted by Claire Clark
In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio …
Asian Review of Books
February 4, 2021
Field Notes from a Pandemic
A Journey Through a World Suspended
Ethan Lou
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
We are just over a year from when global news first reported a new type of pneumonia emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan. A lockdown of Wuhan on January …
East Asian Studies
January 29, 2021
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Theresia Hofer
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform (University of Washington Press, 2018) is the first full-length ethnography of Tibetan medical practitioners (amchi) in central Tibet working outside …
Science
January 25, 2021
The Doctor Who Fooled the World
Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines
Brian Deer
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
A reporter uncovers the secrets behind the scientific scam of the century. The news breaks first as a tale of fear and pity. Doctors at a London hospital claim a link …
Eastern European Studies
January 20, 2021
Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities
Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Ohio University Press, 2019), Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to …
Neuroscience
January 19, 2021
Electric Brain
How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better
R. Douglas Fields,
Hosted by John Griffiths
In Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better (BenBella, 2020), eminent neuroscientist R. Douglas Fields …
Medicine
January 19, 2021
Science Under Fire
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
Andrew Jewett
Hosted by Claire Clark
Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that "tenured radicals" have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some …
Science
January 15, 2021
CRISPR People
The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
Henry T. Greely
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
What does the birth of babies whose embryos have gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us? In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
January 14, 2021
Soul Full of Coal Dust
The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice
Chris Hamby
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Chris Hamby about his book Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice (Little Brown, 2020). Hamby looks into why there has …
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