About Monique Dufour

NBN Episodes hosted by Monique:

Eugene Raikhel, Todd Meyers, Emily Yates-Doerr, "Somatosphere.net"

October 13, 2015

Somatosphere.net

Eugene Raikhel, Editor
Hosted by Monique Dufour

Somatosphere is "a collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psyc…

MK Czerwiec, et al., "Graphic Medicine Manifesto" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2015)

July 24, 2015

Graphic Medicine Manifesto

MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith
Hosted by Monique Dufour

Physician/author Ian Williams coined the term "graphic medicine" to "denote the role that comics can play in the study and delivery of healthcare." Th…

Todd Meyers, "The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy" (U Washington Press, 2013)

May 22, 2015

The Clinic and Elsewhere

Todd Meyers
Hosted by Monique Dufour

Todd Meyers' The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy (University of Washington Press, 2013) is many things, all…

Matthew M. Heaton, "Black Skin, White Coats" (Ohio UP, 2013)

April 27, 2015

Black Skin, White Coats

Matthew M. Heaton
Hosted by Monique Dufour

In Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry (Ohio University Press, 2013), Matthew M. Heat…

Joanna Kempner, "Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2014)

March 21, 2015

Not Tonight

Joanna Kempner
Hosted by Monique Dufour

Migraine is real, and it is pervasive--at least 12% of Americans suffer some form of this spectrum disorder. Still, migraine remains a conflicted illn…

Keith Wailoo, "Pain: A Political History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)

January 20, 2015

Pain

Keith Wailoo
Hosted by Monique Dufour

Is pain real? Is pain relief a right? Who decides? In Pain: A Political History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014),Keith Wailoo investigates how p…