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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Medicine
January 12, 2021
Aging Behind Prison Walls: Studies in Trauma and Resilience
Tina Maschi and Keith Morgen
Hosted by Rachel Pagones
The demographics of U.S. prisons are changing, as are demographics outside of them: an increasing share of the population is growing old. The number of people aged 55 and older …
Asian Review of Books
January 7, 2021
Confronting Covid-19: A Strategic Playbook for Leaders and Decision Makers
Devadas Krishnadas
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every country around the world in a manner not seen since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, and is perhaps one of the most transformative …
Medicine
January 6, 2021
The Structure of Moral Revolutions
Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution
Robert Baker
Hosted by Claire Clark
We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex …
Science, Technology, and Society
January 5, 2021
The Empire of Depression
A New History
Jonathan Sadowsky
Hosted by Chad Valasek
When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies …
Medicine
December 29, 2020
Pure America
Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
Elizabeth Catte
Hosted by Claire Clark
Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America …
Science, Technology, and Society
December 23, 2020
The Mutant Project
Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
Eben Kirksey
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans (St. Martin's Press, 2020), anthropologist Eben Kirksey visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values …
Religion
December 22, 2020
Religion and Medicine
A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions
Jeff Levin
Hosted by Lindsey Jackson
Though the current political climate might lead one to suspect that religion and medicine make for uncomfortable bedfellows, the two institutions have a long history of alliance. From religious healers …
Medicine
December 18, 2020
Common Phantoms
An American History of Psychic Science
Alicia Puglionesi
Hosted by Claire Clark
Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of …
SSEAC Stories
December 17, 2020
COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia
A Discussion with Emeritus Professor Philip Hirsch
Philip Hirsch
Hosted by Natali Pearson
COVID-19 has had such far-reaching impacts that it can be, and has been, studied from the perspective of almost any academic discipline. For geographers, the ways in which COVID-19 affects …
Medicine
December 17, 2020
Unraveling
Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Hosted by Claire Clark
Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling …
Medicine
December 11, 2020
Co-Conspirator for Justice
The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman
Susan M. Reverby
Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Alan Berkman (1945–2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical …
Science, Technology, and Society
December 9, 2020
What It Means to Be Human
The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
O. Carter Snead
Hosted by Hope J. Leman
At first glance, the term “expressive individualism” seems benign enough. After all, people throughout the Western world value their personal freedom and the liberty to make crucial life decisions such …
Medicine
December 8, 2020
Divided Bodies
Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine
Abigail A. Dumes
Hosted by Claire Clark
While many doctors claim that Lyme disease--a tick-borne bacterial infection--is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond standard antibiotic …
Science
December 4, 2020
Brain Fables
The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them
Alberto Espay and Benjamin Stecher
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease, with this number expected to double by 2050. Despite decades of research and billions in funding, there are no medications …
SSEAC Stories
December 3, 2020
Transforming Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Vietnam
A Discussion with Professor Patrick Brennan
Patrick Brennan
Hosted by Natali Pearson
Globally, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, with over 1 million cases detected annually. The disease is particularly worrisome in Vietnam, where breast cancer incidence has …
Medicine
December 3, 2020
OD
Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose
Nancy D. Campbell
Hosted by Laura Stark
Reducing harm or shrinking the likelihood of accidental death are remarkably contentions projects—in areas from sex education, to pandemic management, to drug use. Nancy Campbell’s important new book, OD: Naloxone …
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