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Medicine
SSEAC Stories May 6, 2021

Of Rice and Men

How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam

Justin Beardsley

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Fungal infections are amongst the leading infectious disease killers globally. They result in more deaths than malaria, and almost as many as tuberculosis. However, they are often overlooked, and receive …

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Medicine May 5, 2021

Examining Tuskegee

The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

Susan M. Reverby

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Some books are new, others are newly relevant – and so worth looking at from a new, contemporary perspective. Such is the case with Susan Reverby’s book Examining Tuskegee: The …
Medicine April 30, 2021

Mass Vaccination

Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China

Mary Augusta Brazelton

Hosted by Laura Stark
Mary Brazelton’s new book, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Cornell UP, 2019) could hardly be more timely. During the Covid-19 pandemic, China was in the headlines …
Japanese Studies April 29, 2021

Beyond Filial Piety

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore, and Hong Zhang

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social …
SSEAC Stories April 29, 2021

Tales of Unsung Heroes--How Thailand’s Village Health Volunteers Helped Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Discussion with Anjalee Cohen

Anjalee Cohen

Hosted by Natali Pearson
On 13 January 2020, Thailand confirmed the first known case of COVID-19 outside of China. As one of the world's most popular tourism destinations, with the majority of its travellers …
Science, Technology, and Society April 29, 2021

Genetic Crossroads

The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity

Elise K. Burton

Hosted by Laura Stark
Elise K. Burton’s important book, Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford University Press, 2021), documents how race and nation became fused in concept and …
Economic and Business History April 28, 2021

The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s

Paloma Fernández Pérez

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez
The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s (Emerald, 2021) uses a range of empirical evidence and case studies drawn from previously unpublished archival sources to offer one …
Medicine April 23, 2021

Sweetness in the Blood

Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes

James Doucet-Battle

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. But has science gone so far in racializing diabetes …
Public Policy April 15, 2021

Ungoverned and Out of Sight

Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States

Charley E. Willison

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
If health policy truly seeks to improve population health and reduce health disparities, addressing homelessness must be a priority. Homelessness is a public health problem. Nearly a decade after the …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel April 6, 2021

Suicide

The Social Causes of Self-Destruction

Jason Manning

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely cite depression. But this approach fails to recognize suicide’s social causes …
Psychology April 6, 2021

MeaningFULL

23 Life-Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, and Body Image Issues

Alli Spotts-de Lazzer

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
MeaningFULL: 23 Life Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, & Body Image Issues (Unsolicited Press, 2021) is a blend of motivational self-help, memoir, psychology, and health and wellness. Alli Spotts-De Lazzer …
Science, Technology, and Society April 5, 2021

Break on Through

Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture

Lucas Richert

Hosted by Chad Valasek
"Antipsychiatry," Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s. The upheavals of the 1960s gave way to a decade …
Medicine March 31, 2021

The Cancer Problem

Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Agnes Arnold-Forster

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Agnes Arnold-Forster's book The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2021) offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at …
Literature March 30, 2021

Lightning Flowers

My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

Katherine E. Standefer

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
As the push for a Universal Healthcare system in the United States becomes more and more popular among the American people, we’re beginning to have more public conversations about access …
Science March 30, 2021

Nobody's Normal

How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Roy Richard Grinker

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone …
History March 29, 2021

Acts of Care

Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health

Sara Ritchey

Hosted by Jana Byars
We are here today with Sara Ritchey, associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, about her new book, Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late …
History March 26, 2021

Sulphuric Utopias

A History of Maritime Fumigation

Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris

Hosted by Michael Vann
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the COIVD-19 pandemic, take the time to listen to this discussion of previous efforts to fight yellow fever, cholera, and plague pandemics. Lukas …
Medicine March 23, 2021

Medicine Is War

The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture

Lorenzo Servitje

Hosted by Claire Clark
Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as “the war against the coronavirus,” “the front lines of the Ebola crisis,” “a new weapon …
Medicine March 19, 2021

An Organ of Murder

Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America

Courtney E. Thompson

Hosted by Claire Clark
An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America (Rutgers UP, 2021) explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States …
Science March 18, 2021

The Poison Trials

Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science

Alisha Rankin

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one …