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About Alec Kacew

Alec Kacew is a medical school student at the University of Chicago.

NBN Episodes hosted by Alec:

Psychoanalysis December 27, 2021

Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Mental Health Practice

Paul Ian Steinberg

Hosted by Alec Kacew
Dr. Paul Steinberg, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, returns to New Books Network to discuss his latest book, Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to …
Medicine February 12, 2021

Psychoanalysis in Medicine

Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Medical Care

Paul Ian Steinberg

Hosted by Alec Kacew
In today’s program, Dr. Paul Steinberg, a psychiatrist and clinical professor at the University of British Columbia, discusses his recently released book Psychoanalysis in Medicine: Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary …
Intellectual History December 15, 2020

Pragmatism's Evolution

Organism and Environment in American Philosophy

Trevor Pearce

Hosted by Alec Kacew
In Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy(University of Chicago Press, 2020), Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in …
Medicine October 7, 2020

Diabetes

A History of Race and Disease

Arleen Tuchman

Hosted by Alec Kacew
In her new book Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease (Yale University Press, 2020), Arleen Tuchman, professor of history at Vanderbilt University, describes the history of how the perception …