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Robert A. Voeks, "The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
48 mins; April 04, 2019
Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth from America's Opioid and Suicide Epidemic" (Radius Books, 2018)
59 mins; April 01, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Joseph Jarvis, "The Purple World: Healing the Harm in American Health Care" (Scrivener Books, 2018)
51 mins; March 15, 2019
Jessica Hardin, "Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
84 hours 3 mins; March 14, 2019
Carl S. Armato, "A Future With Hope: An Inspiring Guide to Overcoming Diabetes" (Carl S. Armato, 2018)
50 mins; March 05, 2019
Janis Powers, "Health Care: Meet The American Dream" (River Grove Books, 2018)
58 mins; March 04, 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
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
Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise" (U California Press, 2017)
62 hours 16 mins; January 11, 2019
Julian Gill-Peterson, "Histories of the Transgender Child" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
64 hours 12 mins; January 08, 2019
Lindsey Fitzharris, "The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine" (Scientific American, 2017)
47 mins; January 07, 2019
William B. Young and Stephen D. Silberstein, "Navigating Life with Migraine and Other Headaches" (Oxford UP, 2018)
29 mins; December 31, 2018
Paul A. Offit, "Do You Believe in Magic?: Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural" (Harper, 2014)
52 mins; December 28, 2018
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
43 mins; December 19, 2018
Stephan J. Guyenet, "The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat" (Flatiron Books, 2017)
64 hours 28 mins; December 19, 2018
Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
68 hours 55 mins; December 17, 2018
Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, "The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
60 hours 3 mins; November 28, 2018
Nivedita Lakhera, “Pillow of Dreams” (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017)
57 mins; November 21, 2018
Shobita Parthasarathy, “Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
61 hours 50 mins; November 21, 2018
Hugh Cagle, “Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
59 mins; October 22, 2018
Robert A. Wilson, “The Eugenic Mind Project” (MIT Press, 2017)
67 hours 23 mins; October 15, 2018
Dániel Margócsy, et al., “The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions” (Brill, 2018)
63 hours 56 mins; October 11, 2018
Theodore M. Porter, “Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity” (Princeton UP, 2018)
54 mins; October 11, 2018
Hervé Guillemain, “Schizophrenics in the Twentieth Century: The Side Effects of History” (Alma, 2018)
41 mins; October 09, 2018
Hilary A. Smith, “Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine” (Stanford UP, 2017)
70 hours 46 mins; September 25, 2018
Joshua Sharfstein, “The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times” (Oxford UP, 2018)
43 mins; September 21, 2018
Josh Luke, “Health-Wealth: 9 Steps To Financial Recovery” (ForbesBooks, 2018)
53 mins; September 19, 2018
Andrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
34 mins; September 13, 2018
Seth Archer, “Sharks Upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai’i, 1778-1855” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
86 hours 48 mins; September 04, 2018
Larisa Jašarević, “Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt” (Indiana UP, 2017)
58 mins; August 24, 2018
Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams, “What’s Making Our Children Sick?” (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017)
88 hours 41 mins; August 23, 2018
Beth Macy, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America” (Little, Brown & Company, 2018)
32 mins; August 21, 2018
Susan Greenfield, “You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity” (Notting Hill Editions, 2016)
38 mins; August 21, 2018
Paul Offit, “Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information” (Columbia UP, 2018)
50 mins; August 17, 2018
Jacob Levine, “Cannabis Discourse: Facts and Opinions in Context” (Jacob Levine, 2018)
67 hours 2 mins; August 13, 2018
Michael Kearney, “The Nest in the Stream: Lessons from Nature on Being with Pain” (Parallax Press, 2018)
59 mins; August 10, 2018
Dorothy H. Crawford, “Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History” (Oxford UP, 2018)
50 mins; August 09, 2018
Marsha MacDowell, Clare Luz, and Beth Donaldson, “Quilts and Health” (Indiana UP, 2017)
58 mins; July 25, 2018
Pablo Gomez, “The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic” (UNC Press, 2017).
53 mins; July 24, 2018
Edward Khantzian, “Treating Addiction: Beyond the Pain” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
48 mins; July 23, 2018
Randi Hutter Epstein, “Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything” (Norton, 2018)
44 mins; July 18, 2018
Sam Kean, “The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code” (Back Bay, 2013)
50 mins; July 10, 2018
Joanna Radin, “Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
47 mins; July 04, 2018
Adam Tanner, “Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records” (Beacon Press, 2017)
56 mins; June 28, 2018
Londa Schiebinger, “Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Stanford UP, 2017)
42 mins; June 27, 2018
Daisy Deomampo, “Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India” (NYU Press, 2016)
49 mins; June 21, 2018
Stephen Klasko, “Bless This Mess: A Picture Story of Healthcare in America” (Lulu Publishing, 2018)
43 mins; June 15, 2018
Melanie A. Kiechle, “Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America” (U Washington Press, 2017)
57 mins; June 11, 2018
Jonathan W. Marshall, “Performing Neurology: The Dramaturgy of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
56 mins; May 29, 2018
Lydia Kang, “Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything” (Workman Publishing Company, 2017)
56 mins; May 22, 2018
Martha Few, “For All Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala” (U Arizona Press, 2015)
65 hours 5 mins; May 18, 2018
Toby Cosgrove, “The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World’s Leading Health Care Organizations” (McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)
59 mins; May 17, 2018
Laura Spinney, “Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World” (PublicAffairs, 2017)
44 mins; May 09, 2018
John J. Pitney, “The Politics of Autism: Navigating the Contested Spectrum” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)
50 mins; May 08, 2018
Christy Ford Chapin, “Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
62 hours 43 mins; May 02, 2018
Eric Yarbrough, “Transgender Mental Health” (American Psychiatric Association, 2018)
51 mins; April 30, 2018
Sam Kean, “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons” (Little, Brown and Co., 2015)
58 mins; April 26, 2018
Jenny Reardon, “The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Knowledge and Justice after the Genome” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
68 hours 41 mins; April 20, 2018
Samuel Harrington, “At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life” (Grand Central Life & Style, 2018)
63 hours 52 mins; April 20, 2018
Jonathan Engel, “Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
29 mins; April 19, 2018
Susan M. Squier, “Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor” (Duke UP, 2017)
46 mins; April 17, 2018
Thomas Morris, “The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations” (Thomas Dunne, 2018)
63 hours 24 mins; April 11, 2018
Carolyn Day, “Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
52 mins; April 10, 2018
Halee Fischer-Wright, “Back to Balance: The Art, Science, and Business of Medicine” (Disruption Books, 2017)
56 mins; April 05, 2018
Mara Buchbinder, “All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain” (U California Press, 2015)
65 hours 13 mins; April 04, 2018
Molly Ladd-Taylor, “Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
50 mins; March 28, 2018
Robert Pearl, “Mistreated: Why We Think Were Getting Good Health Care and Why We’re Usually Wrong” (PublicAffairs, 2017)
72 hours 55 mins; March 27, 2018
Urmi Engineer Willoughby, “Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteeth-Century New Orleans” (LSU Press, 2017)
42 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
Jamila Michener, “Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
24 mins; March 12, 2018
Andrew Lees, “Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment” (Notting Hill Editions, 2017)
63 hours 17 mins; March 12, 2018
Henry Jay Przybylo, “Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia” (W.W. Norton, 2017)
60 hours 51 mins; March 07, 2018
Shiri Noy, “Banking on Health: The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
64 hours 2 mins; February 28, 2018
Anita Johnston, “Eating in the Light of the Moon” (Gurze Books, 2000)
50 mins; February 22, 2018
Howard I. Kushner, “On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
49 mins; February 14, 2018
Kim Yi Dionne, “Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
42 mins; February 06, 2018
Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton, “Managing Madness” (U Manitoba Press, 2017)
55 mins; January 31, 2018
Zoe Wool, “After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed” (Duke UP, 2015)
87 hours 48 mins; January 29, 2018
Samuel Totten, “Sudan’s Nuba Mountains People Under Siege” (McFarland, 2017)
67 hours 8 mins; January 24, 2018
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015)
59 mins; December 29, 2017
Sarah D. Phillips, “Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine” (Indiana UP, 2010)
46 mins; December 14, 2017
Carolyn Sufrin, “Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
65 hours 1 min; December 01, 2017
Carla Joinson, “Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians” (U. Nebraska, 2016)
48 mins; November 08, 2017
Katherine Paugh, “The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition” (Oxford UP, 2017)
42 mins; October 30, 2017
Leigh Straw, “After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I” (UWA Publishing, 2017)
15 mins; October 13, 2017
Gareth M. Thomas, “Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic” (Routledge, 2017)
42 mins; August 15, 2017
Claire D. Clark, “The Recovery Revolution” (Columbia UP, 2017)
66 hours 10 mins; July 28, 2017
Mark Solms, “The Feeling Brain: Selected Papers in Neuropsychoanalysis” (Karnac, 2015)
56 mins; July 03, 2017
Daniel P. Keating, “Born Anxious: The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity” (St. Martin’s Press, 2017)
58 mins; July 03, 2017
Oscar Fernandez, “The Calculus of Happiness” (Princeton UP, 2017)
53 mins; June 11, 2017
Megha Amrith, “Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia” (NIAS Press, 2016)
42 mins; May 22, 2017
Sharrona Pearl, “Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
68 hours 16 mins; May 18, 2017
Amy Ziettlow and Naomi Cahn, “Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss” (Oxford UP, 2017)
56 mins; May 18, 2017
J. C. McKeown, “A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome” (Oxford UP, 2017)
49 mins; April 29, 2017
Grace Davie, “Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
60 hours 58 mins; April 19, 2017
Susanna L. Blumenthal, “Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
63 hours 37 mins; April 18, 2017
Amit Prasad, “Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India” (MIT, 2014)
58 mins; April 18, 2017
John Hudak, “Marijuana: A Short History” (Brookings, 2016)
38 mins; April 15, 2017
Eugene Raikhel, “Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic” (Cornell UP, 2016)
59 mins; April 11, 2017
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