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NBN Episodes hosted by Claire:
January 26, 2026
RX Appalachia
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by doc…
January 6, 2026
Psychonauts
Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, a…
January 7, 2025
The Love Surgeon
Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called “love surgery,…
November 23, 2024
Curricular Injustice
Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathet…
September 18, 2024
The Architecture of Good Behavior
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the fed…
September 2, 2024
Appetite and Its Discontents
Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its D…
August 2, 2024
Making Modern Medical Ethics
The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Ameri…
July 15, 2024
Adverse Events
Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,…
July 9, 2024
The Way That Leads Among the Lost
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico Ci…
June 14, 2024
Tripping on Utopia
Today I talked to Benjamin Breen about his book Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand …
June 12, 2024
The Occasional Human Sacrifice
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No (Norton, 2024) is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle t…
March 27, 2024
Mothership
A dazzling, evidence-based account of one man’s quest to heal from complex PTSD by turning to endangered coral reefs and psychedelic plants after trad…
March 13, 2024
Catastrophe Ethics
In a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? Does anything on the individual level …
January 9, 2024
Live from the Underground
Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and the…
December 5, 2023
William James, MD
Emma K. Sutton's William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician (U Chicago Press, 2023) is the first book to map William James's preoccupatio…
October 14, 2023
Working the Difference
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a professional practice, a behavioral therapy, and a self-professed conversation style that encourages clients to ta…
September 4, 2023
The Sullivanians
In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute fo…
August 9, 2023
Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?
What if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them--and all of us--about the roots of the system that incarcer…
July 8, 2023
Black Health
Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Keisha Ray's book Black Health: The Soci…
March 24, 2023
Dr. Nurse
An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after Wor…
February 28, 2023
Whiteout
In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some arg…
January 10, 2023
The First Resort
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Its …
November 24, 2022
Masters of Health
Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be…
November 9, 2022
All That Was Not Her
While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Mey…