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Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis" (UNC Press, 2019)
62 hours 54 mins; July 27, 2020
Luke Messac, "No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care" (Oxford UP, 2020)
60 hours 47 mins; July 16, 2020
Luz María Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: The Medical Profession in Mexico 1800-1870" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018)
61 hours 47 mins; July 16, 2020
Alyson McGregor, "Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health" (Hachette, 2020)
57 mins; July 13, 2020
Sabine Hildebrandt, "The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich" (Berghahn, 2017)
25 mins; July 09, 2020
Saul J. Weiner, "On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
50 mins; July 08, 2020
He Bian, "Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2020)
83 hours 34 mins; July 02, 2020
Natalie Kimball, "An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
71 hours 39 mins; June 23, 2020
B. L. Johnson and M. M. Quinlan, "You’re Doing it Wrong! Mothering, Media and Medical Expertise" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
82 hours 10 mins; June 19, 2020
Elisheva A. Perelman, "American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
92 hours 14 mins; June 12, 2020
Nandini Patwardhan, "Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions" (Story Artisan Press, 2020)
66 hours 31 mins; June 11, 2020
Jonathan Gelber, "Tiger Woods’s Back and Tommy John’s Elbow" (Skyhorse, 2019)
37 mins; June 10, 2020
Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace" (Yale UP, 2019)
73 hours 38 mins; June 08, 2020
Jay Timothy Dolmage, "Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race" (OSU Press, 2018)
68 hours 20 mins; June 08, 2020
Casey Schwartz, "Attention: A Love Story" (Pantheon, 2020)
42 mins; June 04, 2020
Controlling the Scientific Narrative: Randomized Controlled Trials and The Manipulation of “Control”
30 mins; June 03, 2020
Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
40 mins; June 02, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
60 hours 54 mins; June 01, 2020
Dealing with COVID-19: The Perils of Using Previous Crises as a Reference Point
27 mins; May 20, 2020
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships" (Stanford UP, 2020) )
71 hours 42 mins; May 11, 2020
Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life" (U California Press, 2020)
46 mins; April 30, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, "Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling" (Thick Press, 2020)
51 mins; April 23, 2020
Lloyd B. Minor, "Discovering Precision Health" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
58 mins; April 22, 2020
Richard G. Tedeschi, "Posttraumatic Growth: Theory, Research and Applications" (Routledge, 2018)
60 hours 26 mins; April 21, 2020
Baptiste Brossard, "Forgetting Items: The Social Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease" (Indiana UP, 2019)
49 mins; April 20, 2020
Carlo Caduff, "The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger" (U California Press, 2015)
48 mins; April 16, 2020
Sara E. Davies, "Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
51 mins; April 15, 2020
Travis Lupick, "Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction" (Arsenal, 2108)
53 mins; April 08, 2020
George Scialabba, "How To Be Depressed" (U Penn Press, 2020)
35 mins; April 08, 2020
Ray Dorsey, "Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action" (Public Affairs, 2020)
42 mins; April 06, 2020
Owen Whooley, "On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
60 hours 34 mins; April 03, 2020
Baptiste Brossard, "Why do We Hurt Ourselves? Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life" (Indiana UP, 2018)
48 mins; March 30, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
52 mins; March 30, 2020
Melissa Kravetz, "Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics and Professional Identity" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
60 hours 20 mins; March 17, 2020
Travis Bell et al., "CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic" (Lexington, 2019)
59 mins; March 16, 2020
Tania Jenkins, "Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession" (Columbia UP, 2020)
49 mins; March 16, 2020
Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering" (U California Press, 2020)
59 mins; March 13, 2020
Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health" (Oxford UP, 2019)
26 mins; March 10, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Daniel Skinner, "Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
32 mins; February 24, 2020
Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir" (Mad Creek Books, 2018)
36 mins; February 24, 2020
Francesca Minerva, "The Ethics of Cryonics: Is It Immoral to be Immortal" (Palgrave, 2018)
58 mins; February 13, 2020
David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe, "Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America" (UC Press, 2020)
37 mins; February 05, 2020
Ronald Epstein, "Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity" (Scribner, 2018)
38 mins; February 03, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
37 mins; January 30, 2020
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
40 mins; January 24, 2020
Christina Adams, "Camel Crazy" (New World Library, 2019)
48 mins; January 23, 2020
Nicci Gerrard, "The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting" (Penguin, 2019)
36 mins; January 22, 2020
Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa" (Harvard UP, 2018)
48 mins; January 15, 2020
Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique" (U Penn Press, 2018)
50 mins; January 14, 2020
Joe Miller, "US of AA: How the Twelve Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism" (Chicago Review Press, 2019)
51 mins; January 07, 2020
Babette Becker, "I Should Have Been Music" (Page Publishing, 2018)
67 hours 11 mins; December 18, 2019
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
70 hours 16 mins; December 18, 2019
Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
66 hours 56 mins; December 17, 2019
David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data" (Basic, 2019)
62 hours 44 mins; December 13, 2019
Laura Cabrera, "Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
81 hours 36 mins; December 12, 2019
Emilia Nielsen, "Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
24 mins; December 11, 2019
Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
48 mins; December 05, 2019
Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
52 mins; December 04, 2019
Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
45 mins; December 04, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Stephen Le, "100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today" (Picador, 2016)
65 hours 56 mins; December 03, 2019
John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
60 hours 29 mins; November 29, 2019
Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
60 hours 36 mins; November 26, 2019
Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880" (UNC Press, 2019)
56 mins; November 15, 2019
Claire Edington, "Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam" (Cornell UP, 2019)
72 hours 56 mins; November 13, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
38 mins; November 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
32 mins; October 24, 2019
Theodore Dalrymple, "False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine" (Encounter Books, 2019)
46 mins; October 17, 2019
Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine" (Abrams Press, 2019)
62 hours 2 mins; October 14, 2019
David Sinclair, "LifeSpan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
60 hours 41 mins; October 04, 2019
Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905" (UNC Press, 2016)
70 hours 19 mins; September 26, 2019
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
60 hours 0 mins; September 19, 2019
Travis Rieder, "In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids" (Harper Collins, 2019)
58 mins; September 11, 2019
Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)
46 mins; September 09, 2019
Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
54 mins; August 12, 2019
Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
53 mins; August 05, 2019
Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social History" (NYU Press, 2018)
23 mins; August 02, 2019
Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945" (U Texas Press, 2016)
73 hours 50 mins; July 30, 2019
Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good" (Columbia UP, 2016)
23 mins; July 26, 2019
Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
37 mins; July 26, 2019
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality" (U California Press, 2019)
28 mins; July 26, 2019
Alex Broadbent, "Philosophy of Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2019)
28 mins; July 19, 2019
Katie Batza, "Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
33 mins; July 15, 2019
Robin Scheffler, “A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
40 mins; July 04, 2019
Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason" (Stanford UP, 2018)
57 mins; June 24, 2019
Pauline W. Chen, "Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality" (Vintage, 2008)
42 mins; June 21, 2019
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
64 hours 16 mins; June 11, 2019
Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak" (Springer, 2018)
28 mins; June 07, 2019
Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
56 mins; May 29, 2019
James Crossland, "War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
65 hours 40 mins; May 27, 2019
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
44 mins; May 10, 2019
Eric Topol, "Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again" (Basic Books, 2019)
41 mins; May 07, 2019
Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans" (Yale UP, 2019)
38 mins; May 02, 2019
Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient" (UNC Press, 2016)
51 mins; April 25, 2019
James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
67 hours 21 mins; April 24, 2019
Kate Brown, "Manuel for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" (Norton, 2019)
45 mins; April 19, 2019
Lukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
51 mins; April 17, 2019
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