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Public Health
Interviews with scholars of public health about their new books
November 25, 2024
Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries
Football is the national game in the United States – and many families and friends bond over their love of the sport. While few people play profession…
November 24, 2024
Public Healthcare Under Decentralized Governance in Indonesia and the Philippines
Today’s episode focuses on the policy challenges and politics of public healthcare in Southeast Asia, a topic which has become increasingly visible an…
November 24, 2024
The Sentimental State
With The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024), Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik sh…
November 23, 2024
Curricular Injustice
Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathet…
November 23, 2024
Health Freaks
In Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (University of North Carolina Press, 2024), Dr. Travis A. Weisse tells a…
November 19, 2024
Radical Acts
In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr George Severs draws on activist campaign literatu…
November 19, 2024
We Wait for a Miracle
Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are dis…
November 10, 2024
The Life and Death of Ryan White
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan Whi…
November 7, 2024
Care Activism
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden …
November 6, 2024
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standard…
November 5, 2024
Sick Note
Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical…
November 3, 2024
Carceral Recovery
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditio…
October 29, 2024
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict th…
October 23, 2024
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt
A funny thing happened to historian Michael Vann* on the way to his PhD thesis. While he was doing his research on French colonialism and the urbanist…
October 20, 2024
Resigned Activism
Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and …
October 19, 2024
Soviet Nightingales
In Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism (Cornell UP, 2022), Susan Grant examines the history of nursing care in the Soviet Union from its ninetee…
October 5, 2024
Being Ill
A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partners and fami…
October 1, 2024
Mercy Ships
Reanne Newquist tells me about her voyage on Mercy Ships bringing healthcare to some of the poorest people in the world, a mission started by Don Step…
September 20, 2024
The Balanced Brain
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific devel…
September 4, 2024
Russia in the Time of Cholera
The idea of “backwardness” often plagues historical writing on Russia. In Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets (Bloomsbur…