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How Plague Got Rats
Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without b…
May 21, 2026
Tales of Health
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May 13, 2026
Unvaccinated Under God
Kira Ganga Kieffer is a scholar of American religions, history, culture, and politics with a PhD in Religious Studies from Boston University. She is…
May 12, 2026
Markets of Pain
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May 10, 2026
Paris After Haussmann
Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussma…
May 2, 2026
AIDS in the Heartland
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Katie Batza on their recently published book, AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a B…
April 30, 2026
Coverage Denied
Miranda Yaver’s new book, Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States (Cambridge UP, 2026), has lots of examples and in…
April 30, 2026
Empathy Takes Action
Mainstream psychology has long accepted that some people (like those with autism) are naturally more logical and unemotional, while others (like so-ca…
April 30, 2026
God Bless the Pill
Most people today understand contraception as central to women’s liberation, and when the birth control pill arrived in 1960, the media thought it wou…
April 29, 2026
Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure
Author and experienced harm reductionist Kenneth Anderson is back on the New Books Network to discuss the three new titles in his series exploring the…
April 21, 2026
Whiplash
For nearly a century, every Democratic president—and many Republicans—entered office promising to restructure America’s health care system. Barack Oba…
April 16, 2026
American Bacon
In American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon (U Georgia Press, 2026), Dr. Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How h…
April 16, 2026
Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy
Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Ca…
April 11, 2026
Europe's Laboratory
Europe's Laboratory: Climate and Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Cornell UP, 2025) is a history of eighteenth-century naturalists and physicians …
April 9, 2026
Religion, Spirituality and Public Health
Religion, Spirituality and Public Health: Competing and Complementary Epistemes (British Academy, 2025) focuses on exploring the role of different 'wa…
April 9, 2026
The Coroner’s Silence
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, captur…
April 4, 2026
The Surgeon's Battle
Between May 1 and May 22, 1863, Union soldiers marched nearly 200 miles through the hot, humid countryside to assault and capture the fortified city o…
April 1, 2026
The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living
We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Katherin…
March 31, 2026
Sonic Socialism
In an era dominated by visual information, what can the sounds of a pandemic reveal about crisis and care? How might attuning to sonic atmospheres unc…
March 29, 2026
Tension
In Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid de…