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Medicine
Interviews with doctors and scholars of medicine about their new books.
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 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 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…
September 5, 2026
Mom, Unfiltered
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Leah Kim about her powerful book, Mom, Unfiltered: Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Thr…
September 2, 2026
Linguistic Unease in Healthcare
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick chats with Dr. Nicole Marinaro, a sociolinguist and postdoctoral researcher at the Un…
August 28, 2026
Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel
Once upon a time, or so we’ve been told, medical ethics were confined to the patient-doctor relationship. As long as doctors were true to their Hippoc…
August 21, 2026
Nathan Straus
In New York City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centauries, Nathan Straus was famous as a co-owner of the Macy’s and Abraham and Straus de…
August 17, 2026
Decolonial Endurance
A series of questions have been sparked by the indigenous urgency of the moment: What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do peopl…
August 14, 2026
The Only Cure
Once dismissed as unscientific, psychoanalytic therapy is proving to be among our most effective medical treatments of any kind - outperforming psychi…
August 13, 2026
The New Modern Medicine
Jonathan Fuller’s The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine (Oxford UP, 2025) takes the reader on a philosophical tour …
August 11, 2026
America's Wrong Turn
How can a nation with unmatched wealth and medical innovation also have the highest health care costs and the poorest health outcomes among its peers?…
August 11, 2026
A Monument of Charity
St. Vincent's Hospital began with a simple, but radical mission: to care for all those in need regardless of race, creed, or financial means. For more…