Teresa McPhail
person
4 mentions
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
↑1 vs the 6 months before
Medical anthropologist and author of *Allergic*
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentStephen DubnerFreakonomics Radio · Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin? (Update) · 25:31 · 17 Jul
…This is Teresa McPhail.…
NarratorFreakonomics Radio · How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency (Updat... · 7:58 · May 2025
…That is Teresa McPhail. She is a medical anthropologist at the Stevens Institute of Technology, one of the country's top engineering colleges. And yes, McPhail is an appropriate name for a professor discussing her own failure in a series about failure. But just wait, it will get even more appropriate later in this episode.…
Stephen DubnerFreakonomics Radio · 617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin? · 23:25 · Jan 2025
…McPhail recently published a book called Allergic, Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World. She writes that roughly half a billion people suffer from food allergies alone.…
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