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Medicine July 23, 2021

Distributing Condoms and Hope

The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health

Chris A. Barcelos

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health (U California Press, 2020) is a feminist ethnographic account of how youth sexual health programs in the racially and …

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Medicine July 22, 2021

Epidemic Illusions

On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

Eugene T. Richardson

Hosted by Catriona Gold
In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how public health practices—from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment—help perpetuate global inequities. This book questions …
African Studies July 20, 2021

A Bold Profession

African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa

Leslie Anne Hadfield

Hosted by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
The first African nurse was certified in the Ciskei region of South Africa during the early decades of the twentieth century. Since then, African nurses have played a key role …
Science July 19, 2021

Technologies of the Human Corpse

John Troyer

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination--not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work July 16, 2021

The Borders of AIDS

Race, Quarantine, and Resistance

Karma R. Chávez

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and …
Gender Studies July 14, 2021

The Perfect Vagina

Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century

Lindy McDougall

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in Gender Studies Jana Byars talks with Lindy McDougall, of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia about her new book, The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the …
Literary Studies July 14, 2021

Wonderworks

The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

Angus Fletcher

Hosted by Colin Miller
Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere--from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others--each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative …
Religion July 9, 2021

Ashkenazi Herbalism

Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews

Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Until now, the herbal traditions of the Ashkenazi people have remained unexplored and shrouded in mystery. Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews (North Atlantic Books, 2021) …
Medicine July 7, 2021

Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions

Martin Summers

Hosted by Claire Clark
From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery July 2, 2021

War Stories from the Drug Survey

How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Joseph Gfroerer

Hosted by Emily Dufton
Joseph Gfroerer spent nearly 40 years working as a statistician for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Starting in …
Medicine June 30, 2021

Trans Medicine

The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

stef m. shuster

Hosted by Claire Clark
A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing …
Critical Theory June 29, 2021

The Business of Birth Control

Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution

Claire L. Jones

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How does understanding business help us understand sex? In The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution (Manchester UP, 2020), Claire Jones, a Senior …
Psychoanalysis June 28, 2021

Disalienation

Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France

Camille Robcis

Hosted by J.J. Mull
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021) …
Medicine June 15, 2021

Challenging Choices

Canada's Population Control in the 1970s

Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux

Hosted by Claire Clark
Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse …
Medicine June 11, 2021

American Health Crisis

One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics

Martin Halliwell

Hosted by Claire Clark
Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often …
Law June 10, 2021

Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005

Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues

Camillia Kong and Alex Ruck Keene

Hosted by Jane Richards
Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019) both delivers on what promises and more: it gives practical and ethical guidance for …
Law June 9, 2021

Men in White Coats

Treatment Under Coercion

George Szmukler

Hosted by Jane Richards
The laws that govern psychiatric treatment under coercion have remain largely unchanged since the eighteenth century. But this is not because of their effectiveness, rather, these laws cling to outdated …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work June 8, 2021

Rachel Stuart on the Unmet Health Needs of London Sex Workers

An interview with Rachel Stuart

Rachel Stuart

Hosted by Victoria Holt
Doctors of the World, also known as Médecins du Monde, is an international network of more than 400 programmes across 80 different countries, providing emergency and long term medical care …
Medicine June 2, 2021

Humane Professions

The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914

Rob Boddice

Hosted by Claire Clark
In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice. He …
Education June 1, 2021

Behind the Mirror

The Story of a Pioneer in Autism Treatment and Her Work with Children on the Spectrum

Jeanne Simons and Sabine Oishi

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Jeanne Simons devoted her career as a social worker and educator to the study, treatment, and care of children with autism. In 1955, she established the Linwood Children's Center in …