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About Rachel Pagones
I am a licensed acupuncturist, educator and author with a background in journalism. My greatest clinical interests are older adults and cancer patients, and my primary academic interest is how Chinese medicine and acupuncture can benefit underserved populations. My book, Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (Brevis Press) was published in 2021.Rachel Pagones is an acupuncturist, educator, and author based in Cambridge, England.
NBN Episodes hosted by Rachel:
August 23, 2024
The Last Butterflies
Butterflies have long captivated the imagination of humans, from naturalists to children to poets. Indeed it would be hard to imagine a world without …
June 9, 2023
The Curious Human Knee
Where would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Yet, as…
April 2, 2023
Aging in America
The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Deborah…
February 26, 2023
Embodied Injustice
Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These …
February 17, 2023
Capitalizing a Cure
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (U California Press, 2023) takes readers into the struggle over a medical b…
January 27, 2023
Habit Forming
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Elizabeth Kelly Gray's book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, …
January 7, 2023
Natural Consequences
A collection of 42 essays meditating on both California’s natural gifts and its natural disasters, Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet …
November 28, 2022
Where They Need Me
Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initia…
November 22, 2022
Accidental Kindness
We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we're hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We oft…
November 15, 2022
Hollywood at the Races
Today I talked to Alan Shuback about his book Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf (UP of Kentucky, 2019) A love of the slapstick…
October 31, 2022
The Perfection of Nature
The Renaissance is celebrated for the belief that individuals could fashion themselves to greatness, but there is a dark undercurrent to this fêted er…
October 21, 2022
Bio-Imperialism
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis's book Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility (Rutgers UP, 2020) focuses on an understud…
September 21, 2022
Tik Merauke
A medical doctor with an inquisitive mind and a traveling spirit, John Richens thought he had hit upon an exemplary public health case study – the sto…
September 9, 2022
Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession
In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individual…
September 7, 2022
Model Systems in Biology
Biomedical research using various animal species and in vitro cellular systems has resulted in both major successes and translational failure. In Mode…
August 9, 2022
Building Schools, Making Doctors
In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals recogniz…
July 20, 2022
Our Transgenic Future
The process of manipulating the genetic material of one animal to include the DNA of another creates a new transgenic organism. Several animals, notab…
June 29, 2022
Partial Stories
A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twent…
June 2, 2022
Medicine in the Talmud
Despite the Talmud being the richest repository of medical remedies in ancient Judaism, this important strain of Jewish thought has been largely ignor…
May 30, 2022
The Quest for Sexual Health
Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something c…
May 13, 2022
Difference and Disease
Before the nineteenth century, travelers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did …
May 12, 2022
The Cage of Days
Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days: Time …
April 20, 2022
First Patients
When Dr. Rod Tanchanco, a busy internist and clinical researcher, began digging into old journals looking for a deeper history of renowned medical inn…
March 2, 2022
There Are No Accidents
We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But, as Jess…