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About Maia Woolner
Maia Woolner has a PhD in history from UCLA.NBN Episodes hosted by Maia:
November 24, 2020
Heredity Under the Microscope
“What are chromosomes? And what does it mean to treat them as visual objects?” asks Soraya de Chadarevian in her new book, Heredity Under the Microsco…
September 18, 2020
Merchants of Medicine
In Merchants of Medicine: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century (The University of Chicago Press), medicines embody…
January 16, 2019
From the Middle Ages to Today
With Paris as the organizing locus of his new book, Du moyen âge à nos jours, expériences et représentations de la folie à Paris [From the Middle Ages…
November 26, 2018
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe
The prologue to The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War (University of Chicago Press, 2018) beg…
October 11, 2018
Genetics in the Madhouse
In Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity (Princeton University Press, 2018), Theodore Porter uncovers the unfamiliar origins…
October 9, 2018
Schizophrenics in the Twentieth Century
Schizophrènes au XXe siècle: des effets secondaires de l’histoire [Schizophrenics in the Twentieth Century: The Side Effects of History] is a strong a…
May 29, 2018
Performing Neurology
French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot is perhaps most well known today from the images of his “hysterical” female patients featured in Bourneville’s …
March 28, 2018
Fixing the Poor
Eugenic sterilization is usually associated with Nazi horrors before and during World War II. But, as Dr. Molly Ladd-Taylor reminds us, it was also pr…
February 14, 2018
On the Other Hand
In the early twentieth century, Robert Hertz, a French anthropologist, and Cesare Lombroso, the Italian criminologist, debated the causes and conseque…
January 31, 2018
Managing Madness
Embracing a multi-perspectival authorial voice, Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada (Univer…