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Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
38 mins; September 19, 2023
Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; September 17, 2023
Daniel Jaffee, "Unbottled: The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
53 mins; September 17, 2023
Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)
31 mins; September 15, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
73 hours 18 mins; September 11, 2023
Nicole Fabricant, "Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore" (U California Press, 2022)
36 mins; September 10, 2023
The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis
44 mins; September 03, 2023
Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
33 mins; September 01, 2023
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
30 mins; August 29, 2023
Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)
52 mins; August 28, 2023
Jennifer Moss, "The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It" (HBRP, 2021)
29 mins; August 24, 2023
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
56 mins; August 21, 2023
Ulbe Bosma, "The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years" (Harvard UP, 2023)
26 mins; August 20, 2023
The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
14 mins; August 18, 2023
Sharada Sugirtharajah, "Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
41 mins; August 17, 2023
Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
16 mins; August 16, 2023
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
45 mins; August 15, 2023
Donovan X. Ramsey, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era" (One World, 2023)
25 mins; August 12, 2023
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, "From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now" (Routledge, 2023)
52 mins; August 11, 2023
Why Consumers Choose Private Over Public Health Services in Vietnam
17 mins; August 10, 2023
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
36 mins; August 04, 2023
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)
57 mins; August 03, 2023
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
40 mins; August 02, 2023
The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
57 mins; July 26, 2023
Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
57 mins; July 25, 2023
Oyman BaƟaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)
41 mins; July 23, 2023
Cathy-Mae Karelse, "Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry" (Manchester UP, 2023)
95 hours 23 mins; July 23, 2023
Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)
35 mins; July 23, 2023
Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
49 mins; July 21, 2023
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
44 mins; July 15, 2023
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
35 mins; July 14, 2023
Methadone and Covid-19
56 mins; July 12, 2023
Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)
38 mins; July 08, 2023
Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
34 mins; July 04, 2023
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
59 mins; June 28, 2023
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
57 mins; June 27, 2023
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
28 mins; June 23, 2023
Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
71 hours 25 mins; June 22, 2023
Doctor Ex Machina: AI in Medicine and its Pitfalls
72 hours 41 mins; June 13, 2023
Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
89 hours 27 mins; June 10, 2023
Tessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
42 mins; June 08, 2023
Marius Wamsiedel, "The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania" (Lexington, 2023)
59 mins; June 08, 2023
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
61 hours 4 mins; June 06, 2023
The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
88 hours 2 mins; June 05, 2023
CĂ©sar Ernesto AbadĂ­a-Barrero, "Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital" (Duke UP, 2022)
72 hours 54 mins; June 03, 2023
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
38 mins; June 01, 2023
Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe Meleo Erwin, "Decolonize Self-Care" (OR Books, 2022)
46 mins; May 24, 2023
Matthew Remski et al., "Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Public Health Threat" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
79 hours 7 mins; May 21, 2023
The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
39 mins; May 19, 2023
Misinformed: The Covid Lab Leak Theory and the Politics of Misinformation
63 hours 59 mins; May 17, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 2: Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers
39 mins; May 16, 2023
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
28 mins; May 15, 2023
Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)
64 hours 7 mins; May 14, 2023
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone
42 mins; May 09, 2023
Rapid Reviews: COVID-19
10 mins; May 08, 2023
Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)
66 hours 0 mins; May 04, 2023
Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, "A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942" (SEA Program Publications, 2022)
57 mins; April 30, 2023
Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)
67 hours 12 mins; April 29, 2023
The History of Contraception
15 mins; April 28, 2023
Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
48 mins; April 27, 2023
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
56 mins; April 02, 2023
Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)
50 mins; March 27, 2023
Tracy Livecchi and Liza Morton, "Healing Hearts and Minds: A Holistic Approach to Coping Well with Congenital Heart Disease" (Oxford UP, 2023)
26 mins; March 26, 2023
Derek Hanley, "Photos from the Front Lines: A Year on the Streets of Alameda County" (2022)
51 mins; March 25, 2023
Lee Trepanier, "Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID" (Routledge, 2022)
28 mins; March 23, 2023
Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)
56 mins; March 17, 2023
Rosalynn A. Vega, "Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine" (U Texas Press, 2023)
54 mins; March 15, 2023
Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; March 12, 2023
Melanie Heath et al., "Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions" (Routledge, 2022)
41 mins; March 04, 2023
Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)
31 mins; March 04, 2023
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
43 mins; March 02, 2023
Arthur Kleinman, "Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine" (U California Press, 1997)
32 mins; March 01, 2023
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
95 hours 26 mins; February 28, 2023
Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
65 hours 54 mins; February 26, 2023
Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
54 mins; February 23, 2023
Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)
62 hours 39 mins; February 22, 2023
The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
37 mins; February 21, 2023
Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
39 mins; February 19, 2023
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
59 mins; February 19, 2023
Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
53 mins; February 17, 2023
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
55 mins; February 13, 2023
Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan
59 mins; February 13, 2023
Buddhist Responses to COVID: A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana
55 mins; February 04, 2023
The History of Teletherapy
63 hours 1 min; January 30, 2023
Alexandre I. R. White, "Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease" (Stanford UP, 2023)
102 hours 13 mins; January 30, 2023
Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems" (Bis Publishers, 2022)
61 hours 40 mins; January 29, 2023
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
51 mins; January 24, 2023
Liran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)
68 hours 57 mins; January 21, 2023
How Did the Pandemic Transform Workers and Work?
36 mins; January 16, 2023
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
59 mins; January 10, 2023
Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)
45 mins; January 10, 2023
Roger D. Blackwell and Roger A. Bailey, "Objective Prosperity: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Outcomes for You, Your Business, and Your Nation (Rothstein Publishing, 2022)
34 mins; December 29, 2022
Seeing Truth in Picturing the Pandemic:
65 hours 43 mins; December 29, 2022
Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
84 hours 46 mins; December 28, 2022
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
68 hours 17 mins; December 26, 2022
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
52 mins; December 23, 2022
Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; December 20, 2022
Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
71 hours 36 mins; December 12, 2022
Is China's Communist Party Threatened by the Protests?
41 mins; December 12, 2022
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