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Pauline Boss, "The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic" (W.W. Norton, 2021)
59 mins; April 06, 2022
Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021)
61 hours 14 mins; April 05, 2022
The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
46 mins; April 05, 2022
Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)
76 hours 5 mins; March 30, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID
62 hours 50 mins; March 30, 2022
Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
73 hours 57 mins; March 25, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 3: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn
65 hours 40 mins; March 23, 2022
Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022)
66 hours 25 mins; March 22, 2022
Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi, "Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue" (Harvard UP, 2021)
29 mins; March 18, 2022
Understanding the Drivers of Vaccine Acceptance in Southeast Asia
22 mins; March 18, 2022
Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
57 mins; March 16, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 2: A Conversation with Stephen Scherer
43 mins; March 16, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 1: A Conversation with Miguel Nicolelis
63 hours 46 mins; March 09, 2022
John Zerzan, "When We Are Human: Notes from the Age of Pandemics" (Feral House, 2021)
58 mins; March 04, 2022
Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
41 mins; February 08, 2022
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
45 mins; February 07, 2022
Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
40 mins; February 07, 2022
Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
40 mins; February 07, 2022
Charles Vidich, "Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine" (Praeger, 2021)
60 hours 20 mins; February 03, 2022
Keith Wailoo, "Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
54 mins; January 31, 2022
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, "The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas" (NYU Press, 2021)
55 mins; January 31, 2022
Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh, "Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021)
51 mins; January 19, 2022
Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
41 mins; January 13, 2022
Peter A. Swenson, "Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine" (Yale UP, 2021)
34 mins; January 12, 2022
COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan
25 mins; January 07, 2022
Amy C. Sullivan, "Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
48 mins; January 07, 2022
Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
58 mins; December 31, 2021
Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
40 mins; December 21, 2021
Alison Ritter, "Drug Policy" (Routledge, 2021)
53 mins; December 13, 2021
Priya Fielding-Singh, "How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America" (Little Brown Spark, 2021)
32 mins; December 10, 2021
Noémi Tousignant, "Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
46 mins; December 09, 2021
David A. B. Murray, "Living with HIV in Post-crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame" (Lexington Books, 2021)
52 mins; November 18, 2021
Julia Bahner, "Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory" (Routledge, 2021)
42 mins; November 12, 2021
Diego Armus and Pablo GĂłmez, "The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
71 hours 20 mins; November 08, 2021
Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky, "The Opioid Epidemic in the United States: Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures" (Routledge, 2021)
57 mins; October 20, 2021
Rocio Gomez, "Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
43 mins; October 15, 2021
Kevin A. Sabet, "Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" (Forefront Books, 2021)
58 mins; October 13, 2021
Anne Pollock, "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
56 mins; October 11, 2021
Kyle Harper, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" (Princeton UP, 2021)
48 mins; October 01, 2021
Stepping in to Improve Women’s and Babies’ Lives in Southeast Asia
19 mins; September 23, 2021
Donald A. Barr, "Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
38 mins; August 30, 2021
Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, "Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
59 mins; August 19, 2021
Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, "Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018" (Routledge, 2021)
45 mins; August 16, 2021
Gowri Vijayakumar, "At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response" (Stanford UP, 2021)
58 mins; August 10, 2021
Chinmay Tumbe, "The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
49 mins; August 02, 2021
Chris A. Barcelos, "Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health" (U California Press, 2020)
58 mins; July 23, 2021
Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)
46 mins; July 22, 2021
Karma R. ChĂĄvez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance" (U Washington Press, 2021)
63 hours 59 mins; July 16, 2021
Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
55 mins; July 02, 2021
Martin Halliwell, "American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
59 mins; June 11, 2021
Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 50 mins; May 31, 2021
Nicholas Freudenberg, "At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health" (Oxford UP, 2021)
34 mins; May 25, 2021
Susan M. Reverby, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (UNC Press, 2013)
43 mins; May 05, 2021
Mary A. Brazelton, "Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2019)
60 hours 49 mins; April 30, 2021
Tales of Unsung Heroes: How Thailand’s Village Health Volunteers Helped Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic
23 mins; April 29, 2021
John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov, "The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society" (Routledge, 2021)
65 hours 9 mins; April 16, 2021
Charley E. Willison, "Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States" (Oxford UP, 2021)
31 mins; April 15, 2021
SiobhĂĄn Hearne, "Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
57 mins; April 07, 2021
Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris, "Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation" (MIT Press, 2020)
88 hours 13 mins; March 26, 2021
Mitchell L. Hammond, "Epidemics and the Modern World" (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
104 hours 8 mins; March 17, 2021
Xiaoping Fang, "China's Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society Under Mao" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
55 mins; March 09, 2021
Imitating Viruses: How Technology Can Help Us Be Better Prepared For Pandemics
19 mins; February 24, 2021
Seema Yasmin, "Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
26 mins; February 22, 2021
Jacob Steere-Williams, "The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
57 mins; February 19, 2021
Combating African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste with Associate Professor Paul Hick
17 mins; February 11, 2021
Daniel A. Rodriguez, ï»ż"The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
51 mins; February 10, 2021
Thomas Pradeu, "Philosophy of Immunology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 8 mins; February 10, 2021
Ethan Lou, "Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended" (Signal, 2020)
36 mins; February 04, 2021
Saiba Varma, "The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir" (Duke UP, 2020)
64 hours 41 mins; January 27, 2021
Brian Deer, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
54 mins; January 25, 2021
M. Nestle and K. Trueman, "Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health" (U California Press, 2020)
52 mins; January 13, 2021
Nicholas Bartlett, "Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China" (U California Press, 2020)
83 hours 28 mins; January 08, 2021
Devadas Krishnadas, "Confronting Covid-19: A Strategic Playbook for Leaders and Decision Makers" (MCIA, 2020)
41 mins; January 07, 2021
Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
54 mins; December 22, 2020
47 Glimpsing COVID: Gael McGill on Data Visualization (GT, JP)
35 mins; December 17, 2020
COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia: A Discussion with Emeritus Professor Philip Hirsch
26 mins; December 17, 2020
Adrian Wooldridge, "The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It" (HarperVia, 2020)
72 hours 55 mins; December 14, 2020
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
47 mins; December 03, 2020
Joshua Gans, "The Pandemic Information Gap and the Brutal Economics of Covid-19" (MIT Press, 2020)
38 mins; November 17, 2020
Japanese Civil Society: Responding to COVID -19 at Home and Abroad with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius
24 mins; November 15, 2020
The Fight Against COVID-19: Humanities Matter Amidst a Pandemic Too
16 mins; November 04, 2020
Dan Royles, "To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS" (UNC Press, 2020)
72 hours 40 mins; October 21, 2020
Rene Almeling, "GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health" (U California Press, 2020)
33 mins; October 15, 2020
John Whysner, "The Alchemy of Disease" (Columbia UP, 2020)
49 mins; October 08, 2020
Jennifer J. Carroll, "Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2019)
56 mins; October 06, 2020
Jennifer Lisa Koslow, "Exhibiting Health: Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
48 mins; October 05, 2020
Charles Allan McCoy, "Diseased States: Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
50 mins; September 04, 2020
Mari K. Webel, "The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019)
80 hours 46 mins; August 03, 2020
Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis" (UNC Press, 2019)
62 hours 54 mins; July 27, 2020
Luz María Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: The Medical Profession in Mexico 1800-1870" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018)
61 hours 47 mins; July 16, 2020
Luke Messac, "No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 32 mins; July 16, 2020
Fay Bound Alberti, "A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion" (Oxford UP, 2019)
53 mins; July 14, 2020
Elisheva A. Perelman, "American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
92 hours 14 mins; June 12, 2020
Impacts of Covid-19 on Japanese society with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius
36 mins; June 05, 2020
Controlling the Scientific Narrative: Randomized Controlled Trials and The Manipulation of “Control”
30 mins; June 03, 2020
Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
40 mins; June 02, 2020
Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
48 mins; May 27, 2020
Dealing with COVID-19: The Perils of Using Previous Crises as a Reference Point
27 mins; May 20, 2020
Epidemic Management in China with Lauri Paltemaa
29 mins; May 14, 2020
30 In Focus: Nir Eyal on (the deontology of) “Challenge Testing” a Covid Vaccine
30 mins; May 07, 2020
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