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Katherine Harvey, "The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living" (Reaktion, 2026)
42 mins; April 01, 2026
Christina Schwenkel, "Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi" (U California Press, 2025)
69 hours 48 mins; March 31, 2026
Nikita Kaur Simpson, "Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas" (Duke UP, 2026)
49 mins; March 29, 2026
Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body" (Activist Studies of Science, 2022)
44 mins; March 23, 2026
⁠The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health⁠
54 mins; March 19, 2026
Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)
51 mins; March 15, 2026
John Oakes, "The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without" (Avid Reader, 2024)
55 mins; March 15, 2026
Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
48 mins; March 10, 2026
Amy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)
54 mins; March 06, 2026
Helen Redmond, "Liquid Handcuffs: Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment" (North Atlantic Books, 2026)
56 mins; March 03, 2026
Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
65 hours 55 mins; February 22, 2026
Emily Dufton, "Addiction, Inc: Medication-assisted Treatment and America's Forgotten War on Drugs" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
60 hours 16 mins; February 18, 2026
Cassandra Shepard, "Settler Colonialism is the Disaster: A Critique of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
49 mins; February 15, 2026
Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)
46 mins; February 14, 2026
Stephen Bezruchka, "Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
35 mins; January 29, 2026
Jonathan Gleason, "Field Guide to Falling Ill" (Yale UP, 2026)
52 mins; January 27, 2026
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 6 mins; January 24, 2026
Abortion and Reproductive Justice: An Essential Guide for Resistance
61 hours 33 mins; January 22, 2026
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
55 mins; January 19, 2026
Bruno J. Strasser and Thomas Schlich, "The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air" (Yale UP, 2025)
59 mins; January 13, 2026
Linda Eckert, "Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
24 mins; January 11, 2026
Joseph L Graves, "Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
27 mins; December 14, 2025
Mark Deuze, "Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick" (Intellect Books, 2025)
66 hours 1 min; December 14, 2025
Camesia O. Matthews, "The Dental Fitness Advantage: How a Healthy Mouth Enhances Total Body Health and Elevates Performance" (Playbook Scholars, 2025)
47 mins; December 13, 2025
René Esparza, "From Vice to Nice: Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS" (UNC Press, 2025)
52 mins; December 11, 2025
Gregory S. Wilson, "Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
69 hours 48 mins; December 07, 2025
The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, "The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
50 mins; December 06, 2025
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
43 mins; December 04, 2025
Jonathan S. Jones, "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis" (UNC Press, 2025)
38 mins; December 02, 2025
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
56 mins; November 28, 2025
Tom White, "Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster" (Repeater, 2025)
39 mins; November 23, 2025
Margaret Grace Myers, "The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine" (Beacon Press, 2025)
39 mins; November 21, 2025
David Kieran, "Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" (NYU Press, 2019)
50 mins; November 14, 2025
Judith L. Pearson, "Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder, and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2025)
61 hours 56 mins; November 11, 2025
Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
40 mins; November 08, 2025
Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
69 hours 41 mins; November 08, 2025
Carol Mason, "From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary" (U California Press, 2025)
57 mins; November 05, 2025
Muhammad H. Zaman, "Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable" (The New Press, 2025)
36 mins; November 04, 2025
Nora Kenworthy, "Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare" (MIT Press, 2024)
44 mins; October 30, 2025
Meghan Crnic, "The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores" (U Washington Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 10, 2025
Katherine J. Parkin, "The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
42 mins; October 06, 2025
Katie Herzog, "Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
55 mins; September 30, 2025
Branka Bogdan, "The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia" (Indiana UP, 2025)
50 mins; September 30, 2025
Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Damien P. Gock eds., "Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
43 mins; September 20, 2025
Susan Erikson, "Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance" (MIT Press, 2025)
35 mins; September 20, 2025
Breanne Pleggenkuhle and Joseph A. Schafer, "Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses and Adaptations in the US Criminal Justice System" (Southern Illinois UP, 2025)
24 mins; September 08, 2025
May Friedman, "Fat Studies: The Basics" (Routledge, 2025)
23 mins; September 08, 2025
Helen C. Epstein, "Why Live: An Anatomy of Suicide Epidemics" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
31 mins; September 03, 2025
Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)
45 mins; August 24, 2025
Stacia Kalinoski, Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
31 mins; August 20, 2025
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
42 mins; August 09, 2025
Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
48 mins; August 09, 2025
Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis" (Beacon Press, 2025)
43 mins; August 06, 2025
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
60 hours 13 mins; August 04, 2025
Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
60 hours 9 mins; August 03, 2025
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
57 mins; July 26, 2025
Childhood malnutrition and pneumonia in Timor-Leste
31 mins; July 25, 2025
Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Brian T. Nguyen eds., "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics" (NYU Press, 2025)
40 mins; July 22, 2025
Ela Przybylo, "Ungendering Menstruation" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
40 mins; July 21, 2025
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
45 mins; July 20, 2025
Richard Scheib, "A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic: Depictions of Plague and Pandemic on Film and TV" (Headpress, 2025)
35 mins; July 20, 2025
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
46 mins; July 19, 2025
Andréa Becker, "Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy" (NYU Press, 2025)
28 mins; July 14, 2025
Marc Sapir, "I'll Fly Away: Stories About Amazing Disabled Elders" (2025)
48 mins; June 21, 2025
Laura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia" (Stanford UP, 2024)
49 mins; June 19, 2025
Carolyn Wolf-Gould et al., "A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States" (SUNY Press, 2025)
63 hours 1 min; June 16, 2025
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
57 mins; June 12, 2025
Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security" (Bristol University Press, 2024)
60 hours 5 mins; June 07, 2025
Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
61 hours 30 mins; June 02, 2025
Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons "Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025)
66 hours 24 mins; June 01, 2025
Nicholas Chesterley, "Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
34 mins; May 31, 2025
Michael Buser, "Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context" (Policy Press, 2024)
35 mins; May 14, 2025
Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)
45 mins; May 02, 2025
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
35 mins; April 30, 2025
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
64 hours 52 mins; April 28, 2025
Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
51 mins; April 20, 2025
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
56 mins; April 20, 2025
Pandemic Power: The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
63 hours 20 mins; April 12, 2025
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
58 mins; April 03, 2025
Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
66 hours 4 mins; April 02, 2025
Jeremy Brown, "The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19" (Oxford UP, 2023)
60 hours 17 mins; March 31, 2025
Mara Mills et al., "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic" (NYU Press, 2025)
82 hours 43 mins; March 28, 2025
Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
57 mins; March 24, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
52 mins; March 19, 2025
Jade S. Sasser, "Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question" (U California Press, 2024)
56 mins; March 14, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
45 mins; March 12, 2025
Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)
74 hours 33 mins; March 02, 2025
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)
54 mins; February 19, 2025
Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
56 mins; February 04, 2025
Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
73 hours 12 mins; February 03, 2025
Erica Borgstrom and Renske Visser, "Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement" (Routledge, 2024)
56 mins; January 26, 2025
Casey Golomski, "God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
69 hours 32 mins; January 22, 2025
David Lyon, "Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
59 mins; January 08, 2025
Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
65 hours 43 mins; December 27, 2024
Who Cares? A Conversation with Emily Kenway
52 mins; December 11, 2024
Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West" (U Texas Press, 2024)
44 mins; December 11, 2024
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
75 hours 52 mins; December 05, 2024
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
62 hours 2 mins; December 03, 2024
Cindy Ermus, "The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
51 mins; December 03, 2024
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
52 mins; November 28, 2024
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