New Books in Medicine
Interviews with Scholars of Medicine about their New Book
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- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Medicine about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-09 08:44
- last episode published
- 2025-03-09 08:00
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- 5.85 days
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| 2025-03-09 | The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, includin... |
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| 2025-03-08 |
Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023) In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, Raja Aderdor, the host, delves deeper into this fascinating work with Jeremy Farrell, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Leiden University, who co-authored a translation of this novella. Jeremy shares his in... |
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| 2025-03-07 | In this episode, Jorge Goldstein, the author of Patenting Life: The Commercialization of Biology, delves into the critical junction where biotechnology meets patent law. With a background as a molecular biologist turned patent attorney, Goldstein offer... |
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| 2025-03-02 |
Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022) How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography (MIT Press, 2022), Christos Lynteris ex... |
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| 2025-02-26 | Of all the mental illnesses, schizophrenia eludes us the most. No matter the strides scientists have made in neurological research nor doctors have made in psychiatric treatment, schizophrenia remains misunderstood, almost complacently mythologized. Wi... |
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| 2025-02-19 | X-rays are powerful. Moving through objects undetected, revealing the body as a tryptic of skin, tissue, and bone. X-rays gave rise to a transparent world and the belief that transparency conveys truth. It stands to reason, then, that our relationship ... |
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| 2025-02-12 | When we think about "red tape" and the cost of regulation it's hard to overstate the impact of professional licensing. According to Professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth, it's bigger than unions and more expensive than sales taxes. Millions of American wor... |
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| 2025-02-10 | Dr. Dasgupta is a geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator. In this book, she provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference. Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even scientists today ofte... |
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| 2025-02-09 |
Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025) The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a few scattered institutions in the mid-eighteenth century grew to 579 public and private asylums by the 19... |
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| 2025-02-04 | AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, provide affordable therapy for those who can't afford or can't access treatment, and even invent new psychiatric drugs. But the hype obscures an unnerving reality. In The Sil... |
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