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NBN Episodes hosted by Dana:

Jessica Hardin, "Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

March 14, 2019

Faith and the Pursuit of Health

Jessica Hardin
Hosted by Dana Greenfield

Jessica Hardin's new book Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa (Rutgers University Press, 2018) explores how Pentecosta…

Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams, "What's Making Our Children Sick?" (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017)

August 23, 2018

What's Making Our Children Sick?

Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams
Hosted by Dana Greenfield

Pediatrician and integrative medicine practitioner Michelle Perro, MD, has been treating an increasing number of children with complex chronic illness…

Adam Tanner, "Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records" (Beacon Press, 2017)

June 28, 2018

Our Bodies, Our Data

Adam Tanner
Hosted by Dana Greenfield

Personal health information often seems locked-down: protected by patient privacy laws, encased in electronic record systems (EHRs) and difficult to s…

Mara Buchbinder, "All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain" (U California Press, 2015)

April 4, 2018

All in Your Head

Mara Buchbinder
Hosted by Dana Greenfield

As physicians, we cannot image or measure it, we can only try to locate within the lives and (sometimes) bodies of our patients. In All in Your Head: …

Zoe Wool, "After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed" (Duke UP, 2015)

January 29, 2018

After War

Zoe Wool
Hosted by Dana Greenfield

Zoe Wool's ethnography of rehabilitation After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed (Duke University Press, 2015) describes how soldiers injured in …

Carolyn Sufrin, "Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars" (U California Press, 2017)

December 1, 2017

Jailcare

Carolyn Sufrin
Hosted by Dana Greenfield

In 1976, the landmark supreme court case Estelle v. Gamble, established that under the Eighth Amendment "deliberate indifference" to the health needs …