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Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life" (U California Press, 2020)

46 mins; April 30, 2020

Carlo Caduff, "The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger" (U California Press, 2015)

47 mins; April 16, 2020

Sara E. Davies, "Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)

51 mins; April 15, 2020

Travis Lupick, "Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction" (Arsenal, 2108)

53 mins; April 08, 2020

Travis Bell et al., "CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic" (Lexington, 2019)

59 mins; March 16, 2020

Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health" (Oxford UP, 2019)

26 mins; March 10, 2020

Daniel Skinner, "Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

32 mins; February 24, 2020

Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique" (U Penn Press, 2018)

50 mins; January 14, 2020

Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)

69 hours 41 mins; December 17, 2019

John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

58 mins; November 29, 2019

Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)

58 mins; November 26, 2019

Susan Opotow, "New York After 9/11" (Fordham UP, 2019)

34 mins; November 19, 2019

Theodore Dalrymple, "False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine" (Encounter Books, 2019)

46 mins; October 17, 2019

Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social History" (NYU Press, 2018)

23 mins; August 02, 2019

Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945" (U Texas Press, 2016)

73 hours 50 mins; July 30, 2019

Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good" (Columbia UP, 2016)

23 mins; July 26, 2019

Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)

60 hours 9 mins; July 22, 2019

Alex Broadbent, "Philosophy of Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2019)

28 mins; July 19, 2019

Katie Batza, "Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

33 mins; July 15, 2019

William Caferro, "Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

59 mins; July 03, 2019

Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason" (Stanford UP, 2018)

57 mins; June 24, 2019

Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak" (Springer, 2018)

28 mins; June 07, 2019

Jonathan Marks, "The Perils of Partnership: Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health" (Oxford UP, 2019)

25 mins; May 02, 2019

James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

69 hours 6 mins; April 24, 2019

Lukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

51 mins; April 17, 2019

Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth from America's Opioid and Suicide Epidemic" (Radius Books, 2018)

59 mins; April 01, 2019

Joseph Jarvis, "The Purple World: Healing the Harm in American Health Care" (Scrivener Books, 2018)

51 mins; March 15, 2019

Peter Hotez, "Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

42 mins; February 07, 2019

Leigh Goodmark, "Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence" (U California Press, 2018)

28 mins; February 04, 2019

Dave Chase, "The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call: Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here is How We Take It Back" (Health Rosetta Media, 2018)

49 mins; January 22, 2019

Joshua Sharfstein, “The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times” (Oxford UP, 2018)

43 mins; September 21, 2018

Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams, “What’s Making Our Children Sick?” (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017)

88 hours 41 mins; August 23, 2018

Dorothy H. Crawford, “Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History” (Oxford UP, 2018)

50 mins; August 09, 2018

Matthew R. Pembleton, “Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America’s Global Drug Wars” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017

33 mins; May 25, 2018

Martha Few, “For All Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala” (U Arizona Press, 2015)

64 hours 59 mins; May 18, 2018

Laura Spinney, “Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World” (PublicAffairs, 2017)

44 mins; May 09, 2018

Jonathan Engel, “Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)

29 mins; April 19, 2018

Urmi Engineer Willoughby, “Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteeth-Century New Orleans” (LSU Press, 2017)

40 mins; March 23, 2018

Jonathan D. Quick, “The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It” (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)

49 mins; March 16, 2018

Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015)

59 mins; December 29, 2017

Anita Hannig, “Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital (U. Chicago Press, 2017)

52 mins; July 10, 2017

Travis Linnemann, “Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power” (NYU Press, 2016)

55 mins; March 15, 2017

Anthony M. Petro, “After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion” (Oxford UP, 2015)

51 mins; December 02, 2016

Robert Peckham, “Epidemics in Modern Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

49 mins; November 06, 2016

Daniel Amsterdam, “Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State” (Penn Press, 2016)

19 mins; October 03, 2016

Sam Quinones, “Dreamland: The True Tale of American’s Opiate Epidemic” (Bloomsbury Press, 2015)

57 mins; September 08, 2016

Mark Navin, “Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Epistemology, Ethics, and Health Care” (Routledge, 2016)

64 hours 47 mins; July 01, 2016

Richard C. Keller, “Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)

71 hours 34 mins; September 23, 2015

Elena Conis, “Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization” (University of Chicago, 2014)

46 mins; February 02, 2015

John P. DiMoia, “Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945” (Stanford UP, 2013)

85 hours 4 mins; September 27, 2013

Kate Brown, “Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters” (Oxford UP, 2013)

55 mins; September 11, 2013

Mark A. Largent, “Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)

55 mins; September 06, 2013

Marian Moser Jones, “The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)

65 hours 24 mins; July 26, 2013

Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick, “Reducing Gun Violence in America” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)

51 mins; May 15, 2013

Marta Hanson, “Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China” (Routledge, 2011)

85 hours 33 mins; January 24, 2012

Eric C. Schneider, “Smack: Heroin and the American City” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)

75 hours 24 mins; June 15, 2011

Elizabeth Pisani, “The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS” (Norton, 2008)

60 hours 35 mins; April 24, 2011

Paul Offit, “Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All” (Basic Books, 2011)

38 mins; March 25, 2011

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