Natasha Mitchell

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24,986 appearances 297 recordings 2 series first heard Jul 2005 last heard Jul 2018

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All In The Mind · All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 3: Getting Personal · 24 Dec 2011 podcast
It is. voice-verified
It's a pulsating brain. voice-verified
And that's the blood supply to the brain doing that. voice-verified
I followed up on the show with Kia a year after her surgery. voice-verified
She'd recovered well, but vagaries of the disability support system were doing her head in, so to speak. voice-verified
It was the voice-verified
Thank you. voice-verified
No worries. voice-verified
Anytime. voice-verified
And there have been countless other personal stories on the show over the last decade. voice-verified
Have a dip into our archives as we have for you today. voice-verified
Last words go to historian of science Anne Harrington from Harvard on what the huge demand for stories about people's brains all means. voice-verified
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Well-known neurologist and author Oliver Sacks there, delighting an Australian audience in 1992 for The Science Show. voice-verified
Sacks has called himself a neuroanthropologist and his extraordinary tales about his patients have been published in books like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings and made into blockbuster movies too. voice-verified
And like the work of many others, his investigations of broken brains have really helped us better understand the healthy brain and what it can do. voice-verified
But what we're asking here is beyond their scientific use, why do we find the sorts of narratives that Sachs specialises in so compelling? voice-verified
Is it the guilty frisson of voyeurism, perhaps? voice-verified
Or does it represent a dissident effort to humanise the brain sciences? voice-verified
Well, that's certainly the argument of my guest today, an acclaimed historian of science at Harvard voice-verified
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