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Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
48 mins; December 11, 2022
Margaret S. Chisolm, "From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
74 hours 3 mins; December 09, 2022
James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
42 mins; December 06, 2022
94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)
45 mins; December 01, 2022
Michael Bess, "Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
48 mins; November 29, 2022
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
44 mins; November 28, 2022
Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
68 hours 8 mins; November 28, 2022
Michael Stein, "Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy" (UNC Press, 2022)
54 mins; November 22, 2022
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
31 mins; November 21, 2022
Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
54 mins; November 18, 2022
Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022)
72 hours 26 mins; November 15, 2022
Rustom Bharucha, "The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance, and Public Culture" (Seagull Books, 2022)
57 mins; November 10, 2022
Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
38 mins; November 09, 2022
Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
34 mins; November 08, 2022
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
60 hours 7 mins; November 07, 2022
Mikkael A. Sekeres, "Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust" (MIT Press, 2022)
57 mins; November 04, 2022
Harris Solomon, "Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma" (Duke UP, 2022)
81 hours 24 mins; November 04, 2022
Ayan S. Mandal, "A Stethoscope for the Brain: Preventive Approaches to Protect the Mind" (New Degree Press, 2022)
50 mins; November 04, 2022
Robert Gottlieb, "Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet" (MIT Press, 2022)
82 hours 8 mins; November 01, 2022
Observations about the Hard-Won Wisdom of Old Age
40 mins; October 31, 2022
Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
61 hours 23 mins; October 27, 2022
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
65 hours 1 min; October 21, 2022
Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, "Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
63 hours 23 mins; October 21, 2022
Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
60 hours 45 mins; October 18, 2022
Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
89 hours 31 mins; October 18, 2022
P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
63 hours 7 mins; October 12, 2022
Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
41 mins; October 12, 2022
Suicide Prevention: Grassroots Intervention for High-Risk Groups
38 mins; October 04, 2022
Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
41 mins; September 28, 2022
Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
41 mins; September 28, 2022
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
81 hours 9 mins; September 22, 2022
John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
54 mins; September 21, 2022
Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate" (U California Press, 2021)
37 mins; September 20, 2022
Sarah Lamb, "Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
59 mins; September 09, 2022
Sarah Lamb, "Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
59 mins; September 09, 2022
Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
48 mins; September 07, 2022
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
62 hours 34 mins; September 02, 2022
The Heroin Clinic
52 mins; August 31, 2022
Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)
32 mins; August 31, 2022
Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
50 mins; August 30, 2022
Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health" (UNC Press, 2022)
68 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2022
MĂ©lissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
50 mins; August 26, 2022
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
66 hours 32 mins; August 24, 2022
The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science
58 mins; August 19, 2022
Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
46 mins; August 16, 2022
Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
57 mins; August 15, 2022
Marika Cifor, "Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
92 hours 58 mins; August 15, 2022
Lindy S. F. Hern, "Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
80 hours 13 mins; August 12, 2022
Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)
35 mins; August 11, 2022
Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)
45 mins; August 10, 2022
American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
58 mins; August 05, 2022
Nick Huntington-Klein, "The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality" (CRC Press, 2021)
51 mins; August 04, 2022
America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
53 mins; August 04, 2022
Culturally Competent Health Care, Equality in Health Care: The Case of Muslims and Jews in the UK
29 mins; July 27, 2022
Gonçalo Santos, "Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition" (U Washington Press, 2021)
95 hours 14 mins; July 25, 2022
Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
74 hours 1 min; July 22, 2022
Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
56 mins; July 15, 2022
Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
47 mins; July 13, 2022
“Vaccine: The Human Story”: A Chat with Historian and Podcaster Annie Kelly
73 hours 8 mins; July 08, 2022
Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
24 mins; July 08, 2022
Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
53 mins; July 04, 2022
Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
43 mins; July 01, 2022
Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
52 mins; June 29, 2022
Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
32 mins; June 24, 2022
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
46 mins; June 23, 2022
Bharat Jayram Venkat, "At the Limits of Cure" (Duke UP, 2021)
78 hours 57 mins; June 23, 2022
Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
56 mins; June 22, 2022
Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
82 hours 32 mins; June 20, 2022
Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
67 hours 46 mins; June 15, 2022
R. John Aitken, "The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
60 hours 44 mins; June 13, 2022
Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
41 mins; June 10, 2022
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
57 mins; June 06, 2022
Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021)
59 mins; June 02, 2022
Steven G. Epstein, "The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
59 mins; May 30, 2022
Andrew Doig, "This Mortal Coil: A History of Death" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
74 hours 31 mins; May 27, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic
62 hours 13 mins; May 25, 2022
Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; May 24, 2022
Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
29 mins; May 23, 2022
Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; May 23, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
51 mins; May 18, 2022
Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra, "Conquer Your Diabetes: Prevention, Control, Remission" (2022)
49 mins; May 17, 2022
Guy Beiner, "Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919" (Oxford UP, 2021)
56 mins; May 12, 2022
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
77 hours 15 mins; May 12, 2022
Morteza Mahmoudi, "A Brief Guide to Academic Bullying" (Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2021)
56 mins; May 11, 2022
Christopher Donoghue, "The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents" (NYU Press, 2022)
28 mins; May 11, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
56 mins; May 11, 2022
Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)
40 mins; May 10, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
59 mins; May 04, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
59 mins; May 04, 2022
Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
66 hours 55 mins; April 29, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
56 mins; April 27, 2022
Rod Tanchanco, "First Patients: The Incredible True Stories of Pioneer Patients" (First Hawk, 2022)
57 mins; April 20, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal
54 mins; April 20, 2022
Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
39 mins; April 18, 2022
Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
49 mins; April 15, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 6: COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding
51 mins; April 13, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 6: COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding
51 mins; April 13, 2022
Robert A Jacobs, "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha" (Yale UP, 2022)
68 hours 37 mins; April 13, 2022
The Future of Life Expectancy: A Discussion with Angus Deaton
37 mins; April 12, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger
43 mins; April 06, 2022
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