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Medicine
Interviews with doctors and scholars of medicine about their new books.
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…
August 1, 2026
Outsmarting Cancer
Outsmarting Cancer: Risk Reduction and the Power of Prevention (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026) reframes one of the most pressing medical challe…
July 25, 2026
Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe
Jews have been active participants in shaping the healing practices of the communities of Eastern Europe. Their approach largely combined the ideas of…
July 19, 2026
Expecting Inequity
An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substan…
July 13, 2026
Life in Sync
All of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly, and yearly cycles of our planet, and all creatures have internal timekeeping systems that rely…
July 12, 2026
Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959
Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) by Dr. Sara Farhan offers a rigorous social and cu…
July 7, 2026
Fighting for New York
Today I'm speaking with Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the CUNY School of Public Health. We are discussing…
July 5, 2026
Neurodivergent Somatics in Therapy
A new paradigm that honors the wisdom and wholeness of neurodivergent clients. Focusing on autism and what is medically known as ADHD, neurodivergent …
June 27, 2026
UberTherapy
UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health (Policy Press, 2025) is the essential guide to the rise of digital therapy for anyone working in, resea…
June 23, 2026
Disabled Empire
Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain (U Chicago Press, 2026) examines how imperial precedents and racial ideologies shaped th…
June 18, 2026
Pink Crime
A woman miscarries and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administers and loses custody of her newborn. Four …
June 3, 2026
Critical Care
The claim that real change is enabled by grassroots, community-based movements might seem a distant ideal, but Dr Geraldine Fela shows such assertions…
May 21, 2026
Tales of Health
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale (Liverpool UP, 2026) is about the way the Romantic National Tale …
May 20, 2026
Rehumanizing People of the Past
Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade (SUNY Press, 2026) argues that much of the …