New Books in Medicine
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Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
84 hours 46 mins; December 28, 2022
Buddhist Medicine in Tibet: A Discussion with Bill McGrath
81 hours 13 mins; December 26, 2022
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
69 hours 17 mins; December 26, 2022
Neurasthenia
18 mins; December 23, 2022
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
54 mins; December 23, 2022
Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; December 20, 2022
Shelley Fraser Mickle, "Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality" (Imagine, 2020)
61 hours 30 mins; December 17, 2022
Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
72 hours 36 mins; December 12, 2022
Austin Ratner, "The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof" (Ipbooks, 2018)
53 mins; December 12, 2022
Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
50 mins; December 11, 2022
Margaret S. Chisolm, "From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
75 hours 3 mins; December 09, 2022
James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
43 mins; December 06, 2022
Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 05, 2022
Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
30 mins; December 03, 2022
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, "Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
61 hours 49 mins; November 29, 2022
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
45 mins; November 28, 2022
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
45 mins; November 28, 2022
Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
69 hours 8 mins; November 28, 2022
Sri Aurobindo, the Psychic Being, and Integrative Medicine
82 hours 39 mins; November 26, 2022
Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
52 mins; November 24, 2022
Michael Stein, "Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy" (UNC Press, 2022)
55 mins; November 22, 2022
Elissa Bassist, "Hysterical: A Memoir" (Hachette, 2022)
27 mins; November 22, 2022
97 Buddhist Medicine and Buddhish
85 hours 54 mins; November 18, 2022
Anita Guerrini, "Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
63 hours 8 mins; November 16, 2022
Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022)
73 hours 26 mins; November 15, 2022
Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
39 mins; November 09, 2022
Mikkael A. Sekeres, "Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust" (MIT Press, 2022)
58 mins; November 04, 2022
Harris Solomon, "Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma" (Duke UP, 2022)
82 hours 24 mins; November 04, 2022
Ayan S. Mandal, "A Stethoscope for the Brain: Preventive Approaches to Protect the Mind" (New Degree Press, 2022)
52 mins; November 04, 2022
Robert Gottlieb, "Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet" (MIT Press, 2022)
83 hours 8 mins; November 01, 2022
Sian E. Harding, "The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart" (MIT Press, 2022)
67 hours 1 min; October 31, 2022
Mackenzie Cooley, "The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
56 mins; October 31, 2022
Ayurveda and Alchemy: A Conversation with Dagmar Wujastyk
51 mins; October 27, 2022
Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 23 mins; October 27, 2022
Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
54 mins; October 21, 2022
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
66 hours 1 min; October 21, 2022
Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
62 hours 45 mins; October 18, 2022
Suicide Prevention: Grassroots Intervention for High-Risk Groups
38 mins; October 04, 2022
The Psychedelic World of Hollywood Hospital
34 mins; October 03, 2022
Michael Slouber, "Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras" (Oxford UP, 2016)
62 hours 57 mins; September 29, 2022
Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
42 mins; September 28, 2022
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
36 mins; September 26, 2022
Martin Halliwell, "American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
60 hours 31 mins; September 22, 2022
John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
55 mins; September 21, 2022
Rick Strassman, "The Psychedelic Handbook: A Practical Guide to Psilocybin, LSD, Ketamine, MDMA, and DMT/Ayahuasca" (Ulysses Press, 2022)
56 mins; September 16, 2022
Sanjiv Chopra, "Coffee the Magical Elixir: Facts That Will Astound and Perk You Up" (Bookbaby, 2021)
36 mins; September 14, 2022
Sarah Lamb, "Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
60 hours 41 mins; September 09, 2022
Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
49 mins; September 07, 2022
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
63 hours 34 mins; September 02, 2022
The Heroin Clinic
53 mins; August 31, 2022
Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
51 mins; August 30, 2022
Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
80 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2022
Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health" (UNC Press, 2022)
69 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2022
Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
47 mins; August 29, 2022
Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
51 mins; August 26, 2022
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
67 hours 32 mins; August 24, 2022
Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
46 mins; August 16, 2022
Lindy S. F. Hern, "Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
81 hours 13 mins; August 12, 2022
Katherine L. Carroll, "Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
47 mins; August 09, 2022
Daniel Bergner, "The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches" (Ecco, 2022)
37 mins; August 04, 2022
Culturally Competent Health Care, Equality in Health Care: The Case of Muslims and Jews in the UK
29 mins; July 27, 2022
Gonçalo Santos, "Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition" (U Washington Press, 2021)
96 hours 14 mins; July 25, 2022
Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
75 hours 1 min; July 22, 2022
Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
45 mins; July 20, 2022
Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
57 mins; July 15, 2022
Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
48 mins; July 13, 2022
Jennifer J. Hill, "Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
50 mins; July 11, 2022
“Vaccine: The Human Story”: A Chat with Historian and Podcaster Annie Kelly
74 hours 8 mins; July 08, 2022
Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra, "Conquer Your Diabetes: Prevention, Control, Remission" (2022)
41 mins; July 08, 2022
Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
24 mins; July 08, 2022
Sarah Fox, "Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2022)
39 mins; July 07, 2022
Matthew Clark, "Botanical Ecstasies: Psychoactive Plant Formulas in India and Beyond" (Psychedelic Press, 2021)
59 mins; July 07, 2022
Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
54 mins; July 04, 2022
Christina Ramos, "Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment" (UNC Press, 2022)
68 hours 2 mins; July 01, 2022
Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
43 mins; July 01, 2022
Susan H. Brandt, "Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
60 hours 58 mins; June 29, 2022
Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
53 mins; June 29, 2022
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; June 23, 2022
Bharat Jayram Venkat, "At the Limits of Cure" (Duke UP, 2021)
80 hours 57 mins; June 23, 2022
Natalie Lira, "Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s" (U California Press, 2021)
56 mins; June 22, 2022
David M. Greer, "Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 42 mins; June 22, 2022
Tehmton S. Mistry, "The 24th Mile: An Indian Doctor's Heroism in War-torn Burma" (HarperCollins, 2021)
39 mins; June 21, 2022
Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
84 hours 32 mins; June 20, 2022
Marga Vicedo, "Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother" (Beacon Press, 2021)
55 mins; June 17, 2022
A. J. Lees, "Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology" (Notting Hill Editions, 2022)
64 hours 38 mins; June 14, 2022
R. John Aitken, "The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
62 hours 44 mins; June 13, 2022
Timothy J. Jorgensen, "Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" (Princeton UP, 2021)
65 hours 47 mins; June 10, 2022
Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
43 mins; June 10, 2022
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; June 06, 2022
Andrew Bickford, "Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military" (Duke UP, 2021)
62 hours 35 mins; June 03, 2022
Jason Sion Mokhtarian, "Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science" (U California Press, 2022)
54 mins; June 02, 2022
Steven G. Epstein, "The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
61 hours 35 mins; May 30, 2022
Andrew Doig, "This Mortal Coil: A History of Death" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
76 hours 31 mins; May 27, 2022
Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
56 mins; May 24, 2022
Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2021)
59 mins; May 23, 2022
Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
31 mins; May 23, 2022
Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra, "Conquer Your Diabetes: Prevention, Control, Remission" (2022)
50 mins; May 17, 2022
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 55 mins; May 13, 2022
Guy Beiner, "Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; May 12, 2022
Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral, "The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison" (Columbia UP, 2022)
68 hours 35 mins; May 12, 2022