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Why Consumers Choose Private Over Public Health Services in Vietnam

17 mins; August 10, 2023

Michelle Daniel Jones and Elizabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)

64 hours 24 mins; August 09, 2023

Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)

49 mins; August 08, 2023

Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)

53 mins; August 06, 2023

Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 03, 2023

Jill L. Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons" (Southern Illinois UP, 2023)

54 mins; August 03, 2023

Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)

40 mins; August 02, 2023

Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)

55 mins; August 02, 2023

Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

36 mins; August 01, 2023

Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, "Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

54 mins; July 28, 2023

The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder

57 mins; July 26, 2023

Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)

57 mins; July 25, 2023

Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)

41 mins; July 23, 2023

Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

49 mins; July 21, 2023

Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)

52 mins; July 21, 2023

Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)

44 mins; July 15, 2023

The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson

36 mins; July 14, 2023

Methadone and Covid-19

56 mins; July 12, 2023

Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)

38 mins; July 08, 2023

Shortage

20 mins; July 07, 2023

Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023)

38 mins; July 07, 2023

Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)

34 mins; July 04, 2023

Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

58 mins; July 03, 2023

Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

58 mins; July 01, 2023

Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

58 mins; June 28, 2023

Rebecca Whiteley, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

38 mins; June 26, 2023

Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

71 hours 25 mins; June 22, 2023

Doctor Ex Machina: AI in Medicine and its Pitfalls

72 hours 41 mins; June 13, 2023

Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)

89 hours 27 mins; June 10, 2023

Han Yu, "The Curious Human Knee" (Columbia UP, 2023)

57 mins; June 09, 2023

Marius Wamsiedel, "The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania" (Lexington, 2023)

59 mins; June 08, 2023

James Kyung-Jin Lee, "Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority" (Temple UP, 2021)

26 mins; June 08, 2023

Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

61 hours 4 mins; June 06, 2023

Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

14 mins; June 03, 2023

César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, "Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital" (Duke UP, 2022)

72 hours 54 mins; June 03, 2023

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)

36 mins; June 01, 2023

Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

52 mins; May 29, 2023

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

66 hours 0 mins; May 24, 2023

COVID-19 and the Biosecurity Surveillance Regime: A Conversation with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

56 mins; May 23, 2023

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

55 mins; May 21, 2023

The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo

40 mins; May 19, 2023

Eugene Lipov and Jamie Mustard, "The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life" (BenBella Books, 2023)

41 mins; May 18, 2023

Misinformed: The Covid Lab Leak Theory and the Politics of Misinformation

63 hours 59 mins; May 17, 2023

America & Democracy Ep. 2: Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers

39 mins; May 16, 2023

Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)

28 mins; May 15, 2023

Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)

64 hours 7 mins; May 14, 2023

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 3: Bita Moghaddam on Ketamine

30 mins; May 12, 2023

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia

33 mins; May 11, 2023

Michael Brown, "Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

76 hours 17 mins; May 10, 2023

Britta K. Ager, "The Scent of Ancient Magic" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

53 mins; May 10, 2023

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone

42 mins; May 09, 2023

Rapid Reviews: COVID-19

10 mins; May 08, 2023

Stephen G. Post, "Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

53 mins; May 07, 2023

Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture

32 mins; May 02, 2023

Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, "A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942" (SEA Program Publications, 2022)

57 mins; April 30, 2023

Ian Hembrow, "Ralph Edwards: Rare Events--The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines" (Springer, 2023)

32 mins; April 30, 2023

The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy

62 hours 1 min; April 28, 2023

The History of Contraception

15 mins; April 27, 2023

Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)

48 mins; April 23, 2023

Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease" (Yale UP, 2020)

48 mins; April 21, 2023

Cristina Mejia Visperas, "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" (NYU, 2022)

57 mins; April 14, 2023

Susan Burch, "Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions" (UNC Press, 2021)

22 mins; April 14, 2023

Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022)

40 mins; April 03, 2023

Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)

57 mins; April 02, 2023

Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)

44 mins; April 02, 2023

Life Extension Therapies

69 hours 13 mins; March 29, 2023

Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)

49 mins; March 27, 2023

Declan Warde et al., "Safety As We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998" (Wordwell Books, 2022)

61 hours 55 mins; March 27, 2023

Tracy Livecchi and Liza Morton, "Healing Hearts and Minds: A Holistic Approach to Coping Well with Congenital Heart Disease" (Oxford UP, 2023)

26 mins; March 26, 2023

Derek Hanley, "Photos from the Front Lines: A Year on the Streets of Alameda County" (2022)

52 mins; March 25, 2023

Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

52 mins; March 24, 2023

Lee Trepanier, "Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID" (Routledge, 2022)

28 mins; March 23, 2023

Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)

79 hours 10 mins; March 21, 2023

Rosalynn A. Vega, "Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine" (U Texas Press, 2023)

55 mins; March 15, 2023

Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)

76 hours 23 mins; March 12, 2023

Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey

23 mins; March 08, 2023

H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)

61 hours 20 mins; March 08, 2023

Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

50 mins; March 06, 2023

Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)

32 mins; March 04, 2023

Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

66 hours 12 mins; March 03, 2023

Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)

44 mins; March 02, 2023

Arthur Kleinman, "Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine" (U California Press, 1997)

32 mins; March 01, 2023

Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)

96 hours 26 mins; February 28, 2023

Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

66 hours 54 mins; February 26, 2023

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto

37 mins; February 21, 2023

Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)

40 mins; February 19, 2023

Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)

61 hours 48 mins; February 19, 2023

Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)

54 mins; February 17, 2023

How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?

56 mins; February 13, 2023

Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan

60 hours 33 mins; February 13, 2023

Marvin N. Olasky and Leah Savas, "The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652-2022" (Crossway, 2023)

59 mins; February 11, 2023

The History of Teletherapy

64 hours 1 min; January 30, 2023

Alexandre I. R. White, "Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease" (Stanford UP, 2023)

103 hours 13 mins; January 30, 2023

Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)

59 mins; January 27, 2023

Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)

52 mins; January 24, 2023

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)

76 hours 29 mins; January 24, 2023

Deafness “Cures” in History

61 hours 57 mins; January 22, 2023

Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)

46 mins; January 10, 2023

Ciara Breathnach, "Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902" (Oxford UP, 2022)

69 hours 7 mins; January 10, 2023

John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)

77 hours 57 mins; January 03, 2023

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