New Books Network Podcast

Political Science March 23, 2023

Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters

Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID

Lee Trepanier

Hosted by Lilly Goren

Political Theorist Lee Trepanier has a new edited volume focusing on thinking about human responses to disasters and diseases. Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from …

African American Studies March 17, 2023

It's Always Been Ours

Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies

Jessica Wilson

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

In It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies (Hachette Go, 2023) eating disorder specialist and storyteller Jessica Wilson challenges us to rethink what having a "good" …

Anthropology March 15, 2023

Nested Ecologies

A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine

Rosalynn A. Vega

Hosted by Joan Matamoros

Each body is a system within a system—an ecology within the larger context of social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors. This is one of the lessons of epigenetics, whereby …

Politics & Polemics March 12, 2023

The Covid Consensus

The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left

Toby Green and Thomas Fazi

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez

During the first months of the pandemic, governments worldwide agreed that ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But evidence is …

Sociology March 4, 2023

Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19

Displacements and Disruptions

Melanie Heath, Akosua Darkwah, Josephine Beoku-Betts and Bandana Purkayastha

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri

Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions (Routledge, 2022) bears witness to our displacements, disruptions, and distress as tenured faculty, faculty on temporary contracts, graduate students, and people connected …

Women's History March 4, 2023

Women's Medicine

Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70

Caroline Rusterholz

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais

Who built the twentieth century birth control movement? In Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70 (Manchester University Press 2020), Dr. Caroline Rusterholz highlights British female doctors' key contribution …

Recall This Book March 2, 2023

Nuclear Ghosts

A Discussion with Ryo Morimoto

Ryo Morimoto

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz

John and Elizabeth, in this special Centennial episode of Recall this Book, explore spectral radiation with Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. His new book Nuclear Ghost …

Medicine March 1, 2023

Writing at the Margin

Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine

Arthur Kleinman

Hosted by Shu Cao Mo

One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who …

Medicine February 28, 2023

Whiteout

How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg

Hosted by Claire Clark

In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing …

Medicine February 26, 2023

Embodied Injustice

Race, Disability, and Health

Mary Crossley

Hosted by Rachel Pagones

Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These groups also share harsh histories of medical experimentation …

Human Rights February 23, 2023

The Proof

Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else

Frederick Schauer

Hosted by Rine Vieth

In a world awash in “fake news,” where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across the courtroom, the scientific laboratory, and …

Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work February 22, 2023

Red Alert

The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking

Jane Lasonder

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

We love the tradition of the Amsterdam red light district, where many women stand in the windows in their underwear. Busloads of tourists and school children come by every day …

Canadian Studies February 21, 2023

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto

A Discussion with David Wright

David Wright

Hosted by Greg Marchildon

Greg Marchildon interviews David Wright of McGill University on his book Sick Kids: The History of The Hospital for Sick Children (University of Toronto Press) which won the Champlain Society’s …

Historical Fiction February 19, 2023

The Woman with the Cure

Lynn Cullen

Hosted by C. P. Lesley

The essential contribution of The Woman with the Cure (Berkley Books, 2023) can be summarized in one sentence: like most of its future readers (I assume), I had never before heard …

Law February 19, 2023

The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide

Jonathan Herring

Hosted by Jane Richards

Professor Jonathan Herring makes an argument that suicidal people have a right to be protected from committing suicide, and that the state should be under a duty to take reasonable …

Medicine February 17, 2023

Capitalizing a Cure

How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines

Victor Roy

Hosted by Rachel Pagones

Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (U California Press, 2023) takes readers into the struggle over a medical breakthrough to investigate the power of …

Drugs, Addiction and Recovery February 13, 2023

How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?

A Discussion with Mark Parrino

Mark Parrino

Hosted by Emily Dufton

Mark Parrino has been involved with the delivery of health care and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) since 1974. As the president of the American Association for the Treatment …

How to Be Wrong February 13, 2023

Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility

A Conversation with Arthur Caplan

Arthur Caplan

Hosted by John Kaag and John Traphagan

For this episode we welcome Dr. Arthur Caplan, who is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at …

Buddhist Studies February 4, 2023

Buddhist Responses to COVID

A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana

Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana

Hosted by Pierce Salguero

Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana, chief abbot at the Pittsburgh Buddhist Center and a scholar of modern Buddhism in Sri Lanka. We talk about his role …

Peoples & Things January 30, 2023

The History of Teletherapy

A Conversation with Hannah Zeavin

Hannah Zeavin

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Hannah Zeavin, lecturer in the department of History and member of the executive committees of both the Center for New Media and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society …