New Books In Public Health
Episodes
Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Even before the Covid pandemic began in 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis....
Katherine Mason, "The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health" (NYU Press, 2023)
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can you run a marathon, drink coffee, eat fish, or fly on a plane while pregnant? Such questions are just the tip of the iceberg for how most pregnant...
Jay Bhattacharya on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Public Health Response
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University Professor of Medicine) joins to the podcast to discuss his beginnings being born in Calcutta, India, his journey...
Hyun Bang Shin et al., "COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a Post-pandemic World" (Ubiquity Press, 2021)
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a Post-pandemic World (Ubiquity Press, 2021) brings together an ensemble of social scientists who offer crit...
Christopher John Bosso, "Why SNAP Works: A Political History--And Defense--of the Food Stamp Program" (U California Press, 2023)
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program evolve from a Depression-era effort to use up surplus goods into America's foundational food ass...
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill, "Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets" (Columbia UP, 2022)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? And how did these fads become so central to conversations about food and nutrition? Anxious Eater...
Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mass shootings have become a defining issue of our time. Whenever the latest act of newsworthy violence occurs, mental illness is inevitably cited as ...
Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier, "Homelessness in the 21st Century: Living the Impossible American Dream" (Routledge, 2023)
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An accessible and engaging introductory text on homelessness and housing policy, this timely book uses a sociopolitical framework for understanding is...
Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as Dr. Andrew Monteith shows in Christian Na...
Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Ch...
Valentina Capurri, "Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Valentina Capurri's book Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Disease...
Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s da...
Daniel Jaffee, "Unbottled: The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market do...
Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America -- and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicine For the cr...
Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zachary Parolin's book Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19 (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023) is interested in poverty during the COV...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, nearly two-thirds of domestic violence homicides in the United States were committed with a gun. On average, three women are killed by a curr...
Nicole Fabricant, "Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore" (U California Press, 2022)
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other c...
The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are r...
Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in ...
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 18...
Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as...
Jennifer Moss, "The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It" (HBRP, 2021)
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Jennifer Moss about her new book The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It (HBRP, 2021). Workplace b...
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively...
Ulbe Bosma, "The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years" (Harvard UP, 2023)
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes har...
The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We will not find “exposure to burning coal” listed as the cause of death on a single death certificate, but tens of thousands of deaths from asthm...
Sharada Sugirtharajah, "Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sharada Sugirtharajah's edited volume Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing (Routledge, 2022) explores the theme of ha...
Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Infectious Behavior, neurobiologist Paul Patterson examines the involvement of the immune system in autism, schizophrenia, and major depressive di...
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Y. Fong is author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which was just released in July,...
Donovan X. Ramsey, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era" (One World, 2023)
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war...
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, "From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now" (Routledge, 2023)
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contradi...
Why Consumers Choose Private Over Public Health Services in Vietnam
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Demographic changes, rise in disposable income, and steady economic growth has led to a growing demand for healthcare services in Vietnam. But the pub...
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them. F...
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America (UNC Press, 2023) examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbe...
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US g...
The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s safer than baby powder? Parents have been trusting Johnson & Johnson for over 100 years to powder their baby’s bottoms. Yet, numerous studi...
Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vincanne Adams's book Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Duke UP, 2023) is part of a broader trend in anthropology th...
Cathy-Mae Karelse, "Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry" (Manchester UP, 2023)
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry (Manchester UP, 2023) offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives t...
Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Turkey, circumcision is viewed as both a religious obligation and a rite of passage for young boys, as communities celebrate the ritual through gat...
Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mental health is positioned as the cure-all for society’s discontents, from pandemics to terrorism. But psychology and psychiatry are not apolitical...
Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yi-Tang Lin received her BA in sociology at National Taiwan University and MA in MA Interdisciplinary Practices of Humanities and Social Sciences, Éc...
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist from the University of Washington and author of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Ph...
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don't know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial part...
Methadone and Covid-19
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Redmond is a Harlem-based documentary filmmaker, journalist, licensed clinical social worker, and professor at NYU. As senior editor and a multi...
Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Keisha Ray's book Black Health: The Soc...
Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Medical research saves lives-yet all too often, it is thwarted by a review system supposed to safeguard patients that instead creates needless delays ...
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eileen V. Wallis' book California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the political, legal, medical, and...
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need (NYU Press, 2023) argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinqui...
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in t...
Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, an...
Doctor Ex Machina: AI in Medicine and its Pitfalls
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Could an artificial intelligence diagnosis what ails you? Medical futurists offer a techno-utopian vision of perfect personalized risk assessments, di...
Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified the ...
Tessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid co...
Marius Wamsiedel, "The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania" (Lexington, 2023)
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marius Wamsiedel's book The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania (Lexington, 2023) is an ethn...
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warn...
The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David S. Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about his book, Lazaretto: How Phil...
César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, "Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital" (Duke UP, 2022)
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital (Duke UP, 2022), César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chr...
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters...
Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe Meleo Erwin, "Decolonize Self-Care" (OR Books, 2022)
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For twentieth-century feminists, it was a rallying cry for bodily autonomy and political power. For influencers and lifestyle brands, it’s buying fa...
Matthew Remski et al., "Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Public Health Threat" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Public Health Threat (PublicAffairs, 2023) is a much-needed analysis of wellness, new age, ...
The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Long considered the most important of all organs, the human heart has fascinated artists and scientists alike. Listen to cardiologist Vincent Figuered...
Misinformed: The Covid Lab Leak Theory and the Politics of Misinformation
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 lab leak theory went from being dismissed as mere misinformation, to now a credible matter of debate amongst media, scientific, and intel...
America & Democracy Ep. 2: Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping...
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once...
Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain (Duke UP, 2023), Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing o...
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on interviews with approximately sixty advocates, drug users, former users, friends, families, witnesses, clinicians, and scientists; Nancy D....
Rapid Reviews: COVID-19
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 brings together urgency and scientific rigor so the world’s researchers can quickly disseminate new discoveries that the pub...
Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did it ...
Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, "A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942" (SEA Program Publications, 2022)
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I was very excited to chat with Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk as we share some obsessions, namely rats and plague in colonial Southeast Asia. His A Histo...
Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. A...
The History of Contraception
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Donna J. Drucker, author of Contraception, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series. We discuss reproductive justice, the his...
Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we stop infrastructure from damaging the planet? In Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond...
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Deborah...
Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around thei...
Tracy Livecchi and Liza Morton, "Healing Hearts and Minds: A Holistic Approach to Coping Well with Congenital Heart Disease" (Oxford UP, 2023)
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most commonly diagnosed birth abnormality in the US. With great advances in surgery and medicine, however, survi...
Derek Hanley, "Photos from the Front Lines: A Year on the Streets of Alameda County" (2022)
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Photos from the Front Lines follows medics from Falck Alameda County ambulance during one of the most tumultuous years in recent collective memory - ...
Lee Trepanier, "Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID" (Routledge, 2022)
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Lee Trepanier has a new edited volume focusing on thinking about human responses to disasters and diseases. Making Sense of Diseas...
Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies (Hachette Go, 2023) eating disorder specialist and storyteller Jessica Wilson ...
Rosalynn A. Vega, "Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine" (U Texas Press, 2023)
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Each body is a system within a system—an ecology within the larger context of social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors. This...
Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the first months of the pandemic, governments worldwide agreed that ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was th...
Melanie Heath et al., "Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions" (Routledge, 2022)
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions (Routledge, 2022) bears witness to our displacements, disruptions, a...
Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who built the twentieth century birth control movement? In Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspectiv...
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John and Elizabeth, in this special Centennial episode of Recall this Book, explore spectral radiation with Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Ant...
Arthur Kleinman, "Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine" (U California Press, 1997)
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays...
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some...
Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These ...
Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a world awash in “fake news,” where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across t...
The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Marchildon interviews David Wright of McGill University on his book SickKids: The History of The Hospital for Sick Children (University of Toront...
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jonathan Herring makes an argument that suicidal people have a right to be protected from committing suicide, and that the state should be u...
Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The essential contribution of The Woman with the Cure (Berkley Books, 2023) can be summarized in one sentence: like most of its future readers (I as...
Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (U California Press, 2023) takes readers into the struggle over a medical...
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Parrino has been involved with the delivery of health care and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) since 1974. As the president of the Ameri...
Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode we welcome Dr. Arthur Caplan, who is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Di...
Buddhist Responses to COVID: A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana, chief abbot at the Pittsburgh Buddhist Center and a scholar of modern Buddhism i...
Alexandre I. R. White, "Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease" (Stanford UP, 2023)
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a ...
The History of Teletherapy
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Zeavin, lecturer in the department of History and member of the executive committees of both the Center for New Media and the Center for Scienc...
Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems" (Bis Publishers, 2022)
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As I slowly settle into 2023 — reflecting on the blur that was 2022 — I can’t help but think about the complex problems (aka big messes!) we fac...
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare....
Liran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is dental insurance so crummy? Why is pet insurance so expensive? Why does your auto insurer ask for your credit score? The answer to these questi...
How Did the Pandemic Transform Workers and Work?
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic brought to the fore a group of workers deemed “essential” – frontline healthcare workers, restaurant employees, slaughterhouse work...