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Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
51 mins; November 01, 2021
Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)
147 hours 46 mins; October 29, 2021
Elyn Saks, “Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes” (Open Agenda, 2021)
90 hours 40 mins; October 28, 2021
Chinmay Murali and Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine" (Routledge, 2021)
56 mins; October 27, 2021
Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021)
63 hours 10 mins; October 22, 2021
Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern on STEMM Communications
85 hours 22 mins; October 20, 2021
Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky, "The Opioid Epidemics in the United States: Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures" (Routledge, 2021)
59 mins; October 20, 2021
Seth M. Siegel, "Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink" (Thomas Dunne, 2020)
41 mins; October 18, 2021
Allyson Day, "The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
61 hours 47 mins; October 15, 2021
A Conversation About Reproductive Health and Abortion Studies
68 hours 31 mins; October 14, 2021
Hannah Zeavin, "The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy" (MIT Press, 2021)
49 mins; October 14, 2021
Kevin A. Sabet, "Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" (Forefront Books, 2021)
60 hours 16 mins; October 13, 2021
Anne Pollock, "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
58 mins; October 11, 2021
Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
66 hours 5 mins; October 11, 2021
Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
93 hours 23 mins; October 08, 2021
Ranae Lenor Hanson, "Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
54 mins; October 05, 2021
Kyle Harper, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" (Princeton UP, 2021)
48 mins; October 01, 2021
Yan Liu, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
87 hours 58 mins; October 01, 2021
Sandro Galea, "The Contagion Next Time" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 mins; September 30, 2021
Lisa T. Sarasohn, "Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
60 hours 21 mins; September 28, 2021
Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
60 hours 7 mins; September 24, 2021
Heather Pool, "Political Mourning: Identity and Responsibility in the Wake of Tragedy" (Temple UP, 2021)
64 hours 12 mins; September 23, 2021
Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
58 mins; September 22, 2021
Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
66 hours 2 mins; September 22, 2021
Aleksandra Bartoszko, "Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical Other" (Routledge, 2021)
58 mins; September 20, 2021
Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, "The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance" (HarperOne, 2021)
77 hours 38 mins; September 16, 2021
Laura Aguirre, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery" (Pegasus, 2021)
59 mins; September 15, 2021
Mariska van Sprundel, "Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance" (MIT Press, 2021)
63 hours 32 mins; September 14, 2021
Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021)
62 hours 23 mins; September 09, 2021
Stephen Hinshaw, “Understanding ADHD” (Open Agenda, 2021)
102 hours 19 mins; September 09, 2021
Cynthia J. Cranford, "Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances" (ILR Press, 2020)
78 hours 29 mins; September 08, 2021
Jeffrey Kuhlman and Daniel Peach, "Transformative Healthcare: A Physician-Led Prescription to Save Thousands of Lives and Millions of Dollars" (Advent Health, 2021)
58 mins; September 08, 2021
Charles C. Camosy, "Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality" (New City Press, 2021)
98 hours 33 mins; September 06, 2021
Jessica Fanzo, "Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
36 mins; September 03, 2021
Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
50 mins; September 01, 2021
Jennifer L. Lambe, "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (UNC Press, 2017)
85 hours 46 mins; August 31, 2021
Mara Buchbinder, "Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America" (U California Press, 2021)
53 mins; August 31, 2021
Donald A. Barr, "Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
40 mins; August 30, 2021
Josephine Ensign, "Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
41 mins; August 30, 2021
Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
130 hours 8 mins; August 24, 2021
Rohit Khanna, "Misunderstanding Health: Making Sense of America's Broken Health Care System" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
36 mins; August 24, 2021
Uta Frith, “Exploring Autism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
95 hours 50 mins; August 23, 2021
Beverly A. Tsacoyianis, "Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
61 hours 13 mins; August 19, 2021
Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
72 hours 25 mins; August 17, 2021
Charles Foster, “Defined By Relationship” (Open Agenda, 2021)
91 hours 46 mins; August 17, 2021
Leslie Anne Hadfield, "A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
66 hours 44 mins; August 17, 2021
Mikkael A. Sekeres, "When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia" (MIT Press, 2020)
60 hours 35 mins; August 16, 2021
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
61 hours 28 mins; August 16, 2021
Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, "Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018" (Routledge, 2021)
45 mins; August 16, 2021
Martha Few et al., "Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
93 hours 22 mins; August 16, 2021
Camillia Kong, "Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
70 hours 26 mins; August 16, 2021
Anna Ruddock, "Special Treatment: Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences" (Stanford UP, 2021)
71 hours 53 mins; August 10, 2021
Gowri Vijayakumar, "At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response" (Stanford UP, 2021)
61 hours 7 mins; August 10, 2021
Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021)
69 hours 21 mins; August 06, 2021
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; August 05, 2021
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
98 hours 19 mins; August 04, 2021
Michele Siegel and Judith Brisman, "Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends" (Harper Perennial, 2021)
48 mins; August 02, 2021
Chinmay Tumbe, "Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
49 mins; August 02, 2021
Moshe Halbertal, "Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism" (Yale UP, 2020)
31 mins; July 27, 2021
Chris A. Barcelos, "Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health" (U California Press, 2020)
60 hours 9 mins; July 23, 2021
Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)
48 mins; July 22, 2021
John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
68 hours 11 mins; July 19, 2021
Karma R. Chávez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance" (U Washington Press, 2021)
65 hours 59 mins; July 16, 2021
Angus Fletcher, "Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
76 hours 34 mins; July 14, 2021
Lindy McDougall, "The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century" (Indiana UP, 2021)
43 mins; July 14, 2021
Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel, "Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
62 hours 46 mins; July 09, 2021
Martin Summers, "Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
60 hours 6 mins; July 07, 2021
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)
57 mins; July 02, 2021
stef m. shuster, "Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender" (NYU Press, 2021)
53 mins; June 30, 2021
Claire L. Jones, "The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2020)
48 mins; June 29, 2021
Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
60 hours 45 mins; June 28, 2021
No Choice: Why Is It So Hard to Get an Abortion in the South?
25 mins; June 22, 2021
Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux, "Challenging Choices: Canada's Population Control in the 1970s" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
48 mins; June 14, 2021
C. Kong and A. Ruck Keene, "Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005" (Jessica Kingsley, 2018)
50 mins; June 10, 2021
George Szmukler, "Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion" (Oxford UP, 2017)
90 hours 31 mins; June 09, 2021
Rachel Stuart on the Unmet Health Needs of London Sex Workers
71 hours 25 mins; June 08, 2021
Rob Boddice, "Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
59 mins; June 02, 2021
Jeanne Simons and Sabine Oishi, "Behind the Mirror: The Story of a Pioneer in Autism Treatment and Her Work with Children on the Spectrum" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
35 mins; June 01, 2021
Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 50 mins; May 31, 2021
Randolph M. Nesse, "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry" (Dutton, 2019)
55 mins; May 28, 2021
Tim Lockley, "Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
53 mins; May 26, 2021
Jenny Bangham, "Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
59 mins; May 26, 2021
Nicholas Freudenberg, "At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health" (Oxford UP, 2021)
35 mins; May 25, 2021
Keeping Lungs Healthy: A Discussion of Respiratory Health in Vietnam with Professor Gregory Fox
15 mins; May 20, 2021
David Hardin, "Standpipe: Delivering Water in Flint" (Belt, 2021)
48 mins; May 17, 2021
Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)
54 mins; May 17, 2021
Bijal P. Trivedi, "Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever" (Benbella, 2020)
62 hours 39 mins; May 13, 2021
Lucy van de Wiel, "Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging" (NYU Press, 2020)
78 hours 16 mins; May 12, 2021
Jason Karlawish, "The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
64 hours 48 mins; May 11, 2021
David Weill, "Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant" (Post Hill Press, 2021)
54 mins; May 11, 2021
LaTonya J. Trotter, "More Than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State" (Cornell UP, 2020)
61 hours 45 mins; May 10, 2021
Of Rice and Men: How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam
17 mins; May 06, 2021
Susan M. Reverby, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (UNC Press, 2013)
44 mins; May 05, 2021
Mary A. Brazelton, "Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2019)
61 hours 49 mins; April 30, 2021
Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
58 mins; April 29, 2021
Tales of Unsung Heroes: How Thailand’s Village Health Volunteers Helped Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic
23 mins; April 29, 2021
Paloma Fernández Pérez. "The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s" (Emerald, 2021)
49 mins; April 28, 2021
James Doucet-Battle, "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
60 hours 0 mins; April 23, 2021
Charley E. Willison, "Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States" (Oxford UP, 2021)
32 mins; April 15, 2021
Alli Spotts-de Lazzer, "MeaningFULL: 23 Life-Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, and Body Image Issues" (Unsolicited Press, 2021)
57 mins; April 06, 2021
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