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Medicine
Interviews with doctors and scholars of medicine about their new books.
November 2, 2026
C-Suite Bound
Veronica Villarreal earned her joint MHA/MBA at the University of Houston–Clear Lake, took her first job out of the program at DHR Health in the Rio G…
October 31, 2026
Autisms
Strikingly clear, humane and helpful, this is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand autism and the autistic spectrum. Drawing on many yea…
October 29, 2026
Last Day
Based on the groundbreaking podcast of the same name, Last Day: How to Stop Losing Our Loved Ones to the Opioid Crisis (Gallery/Lemonada Books, 2026) …
October 28, 2026
Mapping Medical Modernity
Mapping Medical Modernity: Urban Space and Public Health in Tokyo, 1868–1920 (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026) by Professor Susan L. Burns explores the histo…
October 27, 2026
Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey
Chekhov liked to joke that he was a doctor by profession and merely did literary work in his spare time. Behind the joke lies an intriguing truth. We …
October 19, 2026
The Ethics of Precision Medicine and Burned Agency
In this special installment of the University of Notre Dame Press's Books for Better Understanding, Paul Scherz, the Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor o…
October 16, 2026
The Warm Hug
Drawing on decades of experience in recovery advocacy, Keith Keller's new book, The Warm Hug: Substance Use and How to Fix the Failure of Treatment an…
October 14, 2026
Hidden Terrors
In this episode of In Conversation, Lilyanna D'Amato speaks with Paul Kelton about his new book, Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's A…
October 14, 2026
Hit Doctors
As overdose deaths continue to mount and debates rage over harm reduction, drug policy, and homelessness, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Surv…
October 11, 2026
The Preventioneers
What drives someone to challenge the status quo to prevent disaster? In The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries That Changed Our …
October 11, 2026
Healing and the Invention of Metaphor
It has long been understood that illness is influenced not only by our bodies' physiology, but also language, culture, and meaning. Healing and the In…
October 10, 2026
Silence in Mood Disorders
Silence is frequently considered negative or harmful in both everyday life – for example, when we are silenced – as well as in psychiatry, where pover…
September 30, 2026
Strong State, Weak Links
In the early twentieth century, most US states established eugenics programs to improve the human race through selective breeding. North Carolina ran …
September 18, 2026
Building Better Scientific Teams through Team Science and TeamMAPPS
This inaugural podcast for the Voices of Discovery podcast from the University of Houston Clear Lake features a discussion of Team MAPPS, a federally-…
September 9, 2026
Lives Interrupted
An account of the North American fentanyl crisis told through stories and photographs of its victims Lives Interrupted: The Fentanyl Tragedy (Arsenaul…
September 8, 2026
Presence
Erin Maglaque's new book Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body (Astra House, 2026), is a work of early modern history and an account of what i…
September 8, 2026
Nary a Horse Left Standing
In Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City (MIT Press, 2026), Dr. Lee …
September 7, 2026
Standardizing Sex
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (U Chicago Press, 2025) traces the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia in the twentieth century,…
September 6, 2026
Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health
What went wrong with global mental health? Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) critically examine…
September 6, 2026
Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century
What does medical anthropology look like in the twenty-first century? That is the central question of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-Firs…