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Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
58 mins; May 11, 2022
Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)
41 mins; May 10, 2022
Mark Henick, "So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience" (HarperCollins, 2021)
48 mins; May 09, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
61 hours 10 mins; May 04, 2022
Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
68 hours 55 mins; April 29, 2022
Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)
46 mins; April 28, 2022
Anthony Cerulli, "The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India" (U California Press, 2022)
35 mins; April 28, 2022
Anthony Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
56 mins; April 28, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
58 mins; April 27, 2022
Jennifer K. Seman, "Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo" (U Texas Press, 2021)
96 hours 59 mins; April 25, 2022
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945" (U California Press, 2018)
70 hours 32 mins; April 21, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal
56 mins; April 20, 2022
Rod Tanchanco, "First Patients: The Incredible True Stories of Pioneer Patients" (First Hawk, 2022)
59 mins; April 20, 2022
Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
40 mins; April 18, 2022
Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
51 mins; April 15, 2022
Robert A Jacobs, "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha" (Yale UP, 2022)
70 hours 37 mins; April 13, 2022
The Future of Life Expectancy: A Discussion with Angus Deaton
39 mins; April 12, 2022
Marcus Kaiser, "Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2020)
43 mins; April 08, 2022
The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
49 mins; April 05, 2022
Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021)
63 hours 14 mins; April 05, 2022
Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)
78 hours 5 mins; March 30, 2022
Natali Valdez, "Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era" (U California Press, 2022)
63 hours 20 mins; March 30, 2022
Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
46 mins; March 30, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID
64 hours 50 mins; March 30, 2022
Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
75 hours 57 mins; March 25, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 3: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn
66 hours 40 mins; March 23, 2022
Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022)
66 hours 40 mins; March 22, 2022
Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi, "Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue" (Harvard UP, 2021)
29 mins; March 18, 2022
Understanding the Drivers of Vaccine Acceptance in Southeast Asia
22 mins; March 18, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 2: A Conversation with Stephen Scherer
44 mins; March 16, 2022
Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
60 hours 17 mins; March 16, 2022
Annabel Streets, "52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2022)
48 mins; March 14, 2022
Maryam Ziaee, "Big Data Analytics Adoption in Pharmaceutical Advanced Manufacturing"
33 mins; March 10, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 1: A Conversation with Miguel Nicolelis
64 hours 46 mins; March 09, 2022
Carly D. McKay, "The Mental Impact of Sports Injury" (Routledge, 2021)
62 hours 56 mins; March 07, 2022
Kile M. Ortigo, "Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide to Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration" (Synergetic Press, 2021)
39 mins; March 03, 2022
Jessie Singer, "There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
68 hours 5 mins; March 02, 2022
The Future of Sleep: A Discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk
45 mins; March 01, 2022
Piers Gooding, "A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
64 hours 35 mins; February 25, 2022
Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022)
56 mins; February 18, 2022
Marissa Mika, "Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda" (Ohio UP, 2021)
55 mins; February 18, 2022
Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
60 hours 12 mins; February 16, 2022
In Science We Trust?: An insider Conversation with Health Policy Reporter, Fran Kritz
46 mins; February 15, 2022
Rachel Pagones, "Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love" (Brevis, 2021)
51 mins; February 14, 2022
Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
88 hours 35 mins; February 11, 2022
Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
69 hours 22 mins; February 10, 2022
Karen Derris, "Storied Companions: Trauma, Cancer, and Finding Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives" (Wisdom Publications, 2021)
64 hours 9 mins; February 09, 2022
Liz P. Y. Chee, "Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China" (Duke UP, 2021)
53 mins; February 09, 2022
Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
43 mins; February 08, 2022
Rudolf Ramm, "Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession [1942]" (Springer, 2019)
44 mins; February 08, 2022
Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
42 mins; February 07, 2022
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
47 mins; February 07, 2022
Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
66 hours 45 mins; February 03, 2022
Charles Vidich, "Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine" (Praeger, 2021)
62 hours 20 mins; February 03, 2022
Kenneth Anderson, "Strychnine and Gold: The Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States" (2021)
60 hours 36 mins; February 02, 2022
Daniel Groll, "Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
66 hours 24 mins; February 01, 2022
Carla Yanni, "The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2007)
35 mins; January 28, 2022
Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
50 mins; January 27, 2022
Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
22 mins; January 21, 2022
Bradley Schurman, "The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny" (Harper Business, 2022)
64 hours 53 mins; January 18, 2022
Rebekah Lee, "Health, Healing and Illness in African History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
78 hours 0 mins; January 17, 2022
Harry Yi-Jui Wu, "Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization" (MIT Press, 2021)
71 hours 50 mins; January 14, 2022
Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
43 mins; January 13, 2022
Academic or Trade Publisher? How Do You Decide?
46 mins; January 12, 2022
Peter A. Swenson, "Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine" (Yale UP, 2021)
36 mins; January 12, 2022
COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan
25 mins; January 07, 2022
Amy C. Sullivan, "Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
50 mins; January 07, 2022
Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)
70 hours 54 mins; January 04, 2022
Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)
49 mins; January 03, 2022
Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
61 hours 43 mins; December 31, 2021
Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
63 hours 12 mins; December 28, 2021
Paul Ian Steinberg, "Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Mental Health Practice" (Routledge, 2021)
41 mins; December 27, 2021
Migual Nicolelis, “Minds and Machines” (Open Agenda, 2021)
91 hours 34 mins; December 21, 2021
Rebecca J. Lester, "Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America" (U California Press, 2019)
64 hours 2 mins; December 21, 2021
Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
42 mins; December 21, 2021
Timothy M. Yang, "A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2021)
104 hours 21 mins; December 17, 2021
Thom Hartmann, "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
25 mins; December 16, 2021
Janna Coomans, "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
48 mins; December 15, 2021
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, "Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All" (New Village Press, 2020)
29 mins; December 15, 2021
Alison Ritter, "Drug Policy" (Routledge, 2021)
55 mins; December 13, 2021
Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
63 hours 12 mins; December 10, 2021
Noémi Tousignant, "Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
49 mins; December 09, 2021
Britt Rusert, "Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture" (NYU Press, 2017)
68 hours 37 mins; December 09, 2021
Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico, "Risk: A User's Guide" (Portfolio, 2021)
60 hours 35 mins; December 08, 2021
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
44 mins; December 08, 2021
David Herzberg, "White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
60 hours 15 mins; December 06, 2021
Anne Hugon, "Etre mère en situation coloniale: Gold Coast (années 1910-1950)" (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020)
66 hours 8 mins; December 06, 2021
Matthew Walker, “Sleep Insights” (Open Agenda, 2021)
107 hours 39 mins; November 29, 2021
Craig W. Stevens, "The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings" (Academic Press, 2020)
57 mins; November 24, 2021
Mental Health in Academia: A Conversation with Roy Richard Grinker
83 hours 35 mins; November 23, 2021
Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
59 mins; November 19, 2021
Scott Cunningham, "Causal Inference: The Mixtape" (Yale UP, 2021)
68 hours 5 mins; November 19, 2021
Nicole C. Bourbonnais, "Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
52 mins; November 19, 2021
David A. B. Murray, "Living with HIV in Post-crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame" (Lexington Books, 2021)
54 mins; November 18, 2021
John S. Tregoning, "Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them" (Oneworld, 2021)
47 mins; November 16, 2021
Naomi Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?" (Princeton UP, 2021)
33 mins; November 15, 2021
Kristin Hussey, "Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
65 hours 21 mins; November 11, 2021
Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021)
41 mins; November 10, 2021
Diego Armus and Pablo GĂłmez, "The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
73 hours 20 mins; November 08, 2021
Renee Ann Cramer, "Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care" (Stanford UP, 2021)
52 mins; November 04, 2021
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