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Disability Studies September 21, 2023

Mediating Alzheimer's

Cognition and Personhood

Scott Selberg

Hosted by Shu Wan
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With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer's disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood (U Minnesota Press, 2022), Scott Selberg …

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Interviews with doctors and scholars of medicine about their new books.

Disability Studies September 20, 2023

Fixing the Poor

Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century

Molly Ladd-Taylor

Hosted by Shu Wan
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Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) …
African American Studies September 19, 2023

The Black Angels

The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

Maria Smilios

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuber­culosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses …
Public Policy September 17, 2023

Your Money Or Your Life

Debt Collection in American Medicine

Luke Messac

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America -- and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicine For the crime of falling sick without wealth …
Buddhist Studies September 8, 2023

Situating Religion and Medicine

A Discussion with Michael Stanley-Baker

Michael Stanley-Baker

Hosted by Pierce Salguero
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Today I sit down for an in-depth conversation with my good friend, Michael Stanley-Baker, a scholar of Chinese religion and medicine. We talk about Mike’s international childhood and how his …
Disability Studies September 5, 2023

Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Implications for the Social Work Profession

Gerald O'Brien

Hosted by Shu Wan
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Gerald O'Brien's book Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession (Oxford UP, 2023) focuses on the conceptual relationship between the American eugenic movement …
Jewish Studies September 5, 2023

The Twin Children of the Holocaust

Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive. Photographs from the Twins’ 40th Anniversary Reunion at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Nancy L. Segal

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive (Academic Studies Press, 2023) is an annotated collection of original, informative, and moving photographs of the twins …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones September 3, 2023

The Future of the NHS

A Discussion with Gavin Francis

Gavin Francis

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting …
Disability Studies September 2, 2023

Madness in Buenos Aires

Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983

Jonathan Ablard

Hosted by Shu Wan
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Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983 (Ohio UP, 2008) examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina …
Darts & Letters September 1, 2023

The Past and Present of Psychedelic Medicine

A Discussion with Erika Dyke and David Nickles

Erika Dyke and David Nickles

Hosted by Gordon Katic
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Psychedelics have gone from the counterculture, to the mainstream. However, can you turn take such an ineffable thing — a tool for personal revelation, cosmic oneness, spiritual enlightenment, whatever people …
Science, Technology, and Society August 29, 2023

Fertility Technology

Donna J. Drucker

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe …
Medicine August 28, 2023

From Whispers to Shouts

The Ways We Talk about Cancer

Elaine Schattner

Hosted by Ron Winslow
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The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as 1913. Pink ribbons …
Public Policy August 21, 2023

We've Got You Covered

Rebooting American Health Care

Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein

Hosted by John Emrich
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Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or …
Literary Studies August 20, 2023

Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination

Morbid Anatomies

Laura R. Kremmel

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (U Wales Press, 2022) demonstrates a little-studied crossover between the Gothic imagination and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. Unafraid to …
Jewish Studies August 16, 2023

Care and Covenant

A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility

Jason Weiner

Hosted by Matthew Miller
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The Jewish tradition has important perspectives, history and wisdom that can contribute significantly to crucial contemporary healthcare deliberations. Jason Weiner's book Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility (Georgetown UP …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery August 15, 2023

Quick Fixes

Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge

Benjamin Y. Fong

Hosted by Emily Dufton
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Benjamin Y. Fong is author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which was just released in July, 2023 by Verso …
SSEAC Stories August 10, 2023

Why Consumers Choose Private Over Public Health Services in Vietnam

Reflective Accounts of Health Providers in Vietnam with Dr Mai Nguyen

Mai Nguyen

Hosted by Natali Pearson
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Demographic changes, rise in disposable income, and steady economic growth has led to a growing demand for healthcare services in Vietnam. But the public healthcare system struggles to meet the …
Medicine August 9, 2023

Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?

Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920

Michelle Daniel Jones and Elizabeth A. Nelson

Hosted by Claire Clark
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What if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them--and all of us--about the roots of the system that incarcerates so many millions …
Buddhist Studies August 8, 2023

Traditional Medicine in Laos

A Discussion with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh

Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh

Hosted by Pierce Salguero
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Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with two guests, Ounkham Souksavanh and Elizabeth Elliott, to talk about community engagement and community health in Laos. They discuss how Elizabeth as a medical …
Science, Technology, and Society August 6, 2023

Nervous Systems

Brain Science in the Early Cold War

Andreas Killen

Hosted by Paul Lerner
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our …