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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
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
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
Maud Anne Bracke, "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-1980 (Oxford UP, 2025)
71 hours 10 mins; March 09, 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
Alan J. McComas, "Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism" (American Scientist, 2025)
63 hours 10 mins; February 27, 2026
Kola Tytler: Sneakerhead, Entrepreneur, and Medical Doctor
65 hours 0 mins; February 24, 2026
Hanna Pickard, "What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing But Cocaine?: A Philosophy of Addiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)
48 mins; February 24, 2026
Ashely Alker, "99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
40 mins; February 23, 2026
Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
65 hours 55 mins; February 22, 2026
Vanessa Rampton, "Making Medical Progress: History of a Contested Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
34 mins; February 15, 2026
Howard Alan Israel, "Nazi Anatomy Lessons: A Dissection of Evil" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2026)
47 mins; February 13, 2026
Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
53 mins; February 01, 2026
Stephen Bezruchka, "Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
35 mins; January 29, 2026
Olivia Weisser, "The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
51 mins; January 28, 2026
Jonathan Gleason, "Field Guide to Falling Ill" (Yale UP, 2026)
52 mins; January 27, 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
Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
49 mins; January 11, 2026
Alison Bashford, "Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
45 mins; January 10, 2026
Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
43 mins; January 06, 2026
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
28 mins; December 30, 2025
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
30 mins; December 29, 2025
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
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
Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
36 mins; November 28, 2025
Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
40 mins; November 27, 2025
David Kieran, "Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" (NYU Press, 2019)
50 mins; November 14, 2025
Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
69 hours 41 mins; November 08, 2025
Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
49 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
Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)
51 mins; October 30, 2025
Nora Kenworthy, "Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare" (MIT Press, 2024)
44 mins; October 30, 2025
Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
60 hours 44 mins; October 20, 2025
Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
65 hours 50 mins; October 19, 2025
Julia Ross Cummiskey, "Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global" (Ohio UP, 2024)
92 hours 21 mins; October 16, 2025
Walter Scott Peterson, "[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson" (William Carlos Williams Review, Vol 41, No. 2, 2024),
51 mins; October 11, 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
Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)
64 hours 56 mins; September 18, 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
Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025)
65 hours 2 mins; September 05, 2025
Helen C. Epstein, "Why Live: An Anatomy of Suicide Epidemics" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
31 mins; September 03, 2025
Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
50 mins; August 24, 2025
Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
50 mins; August 24, 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 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
Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
57 mins; August 08, 2025
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
72 hours 16 mins; August 08, 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
Rehearsals for Dying
62 hours 11 mins; July 31, 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)
59 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)
42 mins; July 22, 2025
Ela Przybylo, "Ungendering Menstruation" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
41 mins; July 21, 2025
Richard Scheib, "A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic: Depictions of Plague and Pandemic on Film and TV" (Headpress, 2025)
36 mins; July 20, 2025
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
47 mins; July 20, 2025
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
47 mins; July 20, 2025
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 19, 2025
Andréa Becker, "Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy" (NYU Press, 2025)
29 mins; July 14, 2025
Kevin J. Tracey, "The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes" (Penguin, 2025)
32 mins; July 12, 2025
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
51 mins; July 04, 2025
Sarah Bull, "Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
45 mins; June 30, 2025
Stacy Horn, "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York" (Algonquin Books, 2019)
32 mins; June 27, 2025
Improving Quality of Care for Patients with Limited English
41 mins; June 25, 2025
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 24, 2025
Ewa Herbst, "Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
83 hours 13 mins; June 22, 2025
Marc Sapir, "I'll Fly Away: Stories About Amazing Disabled Elders" (2025)
50 mins; June 21, 2025
Laura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia" (Stanford UP, 2024)
53 mins; June 19, 2025
Carolyn Wolf-Gould et al., "A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States" (SUNY Press, 2025)
67 hours 1 min; June 16, 2025
Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security" (Bristol University Press, 2024)
64 hours 5 mins; June 07, 2025
Kathleen Miller, ed., "Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World" (Penn State UP, 2025)
36 mins; June 03, 2025
Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
65 hours 30 mins; June 02, 2025
Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
64 hours 34 mins; May 31, 2025
Jaap de Roode, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; May 28, 2025
Gina Leola Woolsey, "Fifteen Thousand Pieces" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
36 mins; May 27, 2025
Ewa Herbst, "Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
86 hours 39 mins; May 17, 2025
Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
28 mins; May 16, 2025
Edward L. Jones III, "Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder: What Really Killed the Crespi Twins?" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
67 hours 56 mins; May 06, 2025
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
67 hours 52 mins; April 28, 2025
Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
72 hours 47 mins; April 23, 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
Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
69 hours 4 mins; April 04, 2025
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
61 hours 58 mins; April 03, 2025
Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
47 mins; April 02, 2025
Alisha Ali et al., "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health" (Routledge, 2024)
55 mins; March 26, 2025
Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
60 hours 20 mins; March 24, 2025
John Trowsdale, "What the Body Knows: A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System" (Yale UP, 2024)
39 mins; March 18, 2025
Zhiying Ma, "Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2025)
62 hours 4 mins; March 14, 2025
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
72 hours 2 mins; March 12, 2025
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