New Books In Public Health
Episodes
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Coleman Flowers, activist, author, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and MacArthur “genius prize” wi...
Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Its ...
Seeing Truth in Picturing the Pandemic:
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Sarah Willen talks about her part in creating the Pandemic Journaling Project and how that has morphed into a series of visual exhibitions...
Roger D. Blackwell and Roger A. Bailey, "Objective Prosperity: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Outcomes for You, Your Business, and Your Nation (Rothstein Publishing, 2022)
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Roger Blackwell about his new book Objective Prosperity: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Outcomes for You, Your Business, an...
Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagn...
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is medical assistance in dying, or MAID letting the government off the hook from providing what they should be providing? Should we respect people's c...
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher M. Palmer's book Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health (Benbella Books, 2022) will forever change t...
Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of organ transplantation, told from the organ’s point of view. Organs for transplantations come from two sources: living or post-m...
Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, ...
Is China's Communist Party Threatened by the Protests?
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, RBI Director John Torpey talked with William Hurst, Professor of Political Science at Cambridge University, about the origins of the protes...
Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Kat...
Margaret S. Chisolm, "From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The term “mental illness” can itself be anxiety-inducing and depressing. There are words, though, that can counter the fears and stresses that min...
James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Advances in medicine have made possible better treatments for widespread, familiar human illnesses like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Yet there...
94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How should humans respond to our ongoing human-made climate catastrophe? To answer that question, Recall this Book turned to prize-winning climate r...
Michael Bess, "Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Bess is the Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His fifth and most recent book is Planet in Peril: Humanity’s Four...
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
None of us really want to relive our first encounters with COVID-19 and the disruptions to our lives, to say nothing of the anxiety and concern about ...
Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initia...
Michael Stein, "Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy" (UNC Press, 2022)
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we're hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We oft...
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America (UNC Press, 2022), Psyche A. Williams-Forson offers her knowledge and experience to illumina...
Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was--and is--a w...
Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022)
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most...
Rustom Bharucha, "The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance, and Public Culture" (Seagull Books, 2022)
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between Apri...
Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Mey...
Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In the United States, this responsibility belongs ...
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity (Routledge, 2021), June Carolyn Erlick explores the relationship bet...
Harris Solomon, "Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma" (Duke UP, 2022)
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma (Duke UP, 2022), Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals...
Ayan S. Mandal, "A Stethoscope for the Brain: Preventive Approaches to Protect the Mind" (New Degree Press, 2022)
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A taken-for-granted miracle occurs in doctors’ offices across the world every single day. With only a stethoscope and an inflatable cuff, a physicia...
Mikkael A. Sekeres, "Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust" (MIT Press, 2022)
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug A...
Robert Gottlieb, "Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet" (MIT Press, 2022)
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic ra...
Observations about the Hard-Won Wisdom of Old Age
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world's population has just passed the 8 billion mark and an increasing proportion of those people are old, including increasingly the so-called "...
Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using ...
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis's book Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility (Rutgers UP, 2020) focuses on an unders...
Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, "Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to ...
Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was--and is--a w...
Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused (Edinburgh UP, 2022) argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need ...
Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Black Disability Politics (Duke UP, 2022) Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism fr...
P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The global war on drugs began some 150 years before US President Richard Nixon launched the current chapter of America’s drug war in 1971. In Opium...
Suicide Prevention: Grassroots Intervention for High-Risk Groups
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Suicide has been on the rise in recent years, most frighteningly among young people. Suicide is second leading cause of death for people ages 10-14 an...
Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization (Routledge, 2016), Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalizatio...
Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization (Routledge, 2016), Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalizatio...
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water (Duke UP, 2019) trace...
John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A medical doctor with an inquisitive mind and a traveling spirit, John Richens thought he had hit upon an exemplary public health case study – the s...
Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate" (U California Press, 2021)
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate (U California Press, 2021) examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by ...
Sarah Lamb, "Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individu...
Sarah Lamb, "Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individu...
Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Biomedical research using various animal species and in vitro cellular systems has resulted in both major successes and translational failure. In Mod...
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before Remdesivir and Hydroxycloroquin there was Tamiflu. To prepare for Swine Flu and Bird Flu, governments spent billions stockpiling this drug call...
The Heroin Clinic
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This...
Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Using data from the writers' groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence...
Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world without "gender" is hard to imagine. Gender is at the...
Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health" (UNC Press, 2022)
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation ...
Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s and 1970s, the exposure of Big Tobacco’s aggressive lobbying and internal efforts to obscure science showcasing the harmful effects of ...
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion in California was illegal for both doctors performing and women seeking the procedure. In From ...
The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals daily. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in ...
Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Has the pandemic taught us anything? As we look forward and imagine what the future might look like, we like to think ‘next time will be different.’...
Marika Cifor, "Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of A...
Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the ...
Lindy S. F. Hern, "Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement (Palgrave Ma...
Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It began with a smoke break. James Monsees and Adam Bowen were two ambitious graduate students at Stanford, and in between puffs after class they drea...
Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Boyd is a scholar/activist and Distinguished Professor emerita at the University of Victoria. Her research examines a variety of topics rela...
American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. In our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant's largely-forgotten history--how it poisoned the...
Nick Huntington-Klein, "The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality" (CRC Press, 2021)
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inference...
America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Cited: What it means to live in a place where your home can give you cancer. Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up ...
Culturally Competent Health Care, Equality in Health Care: The Case of Muslims and Jews in the UK
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The health care sector frequently emphasizes “Cultural competence”, an elastic concept that stretches from the simplest recognition of diversity o...
Gonçalo Santos, "Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition" (U Washington Press, 2021)
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Gonçalo Santos (University of Coimbra), about his new book, Chinese Village Life Today: Building ...
Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To be an emergency room doctor is to be a professional listener to stories. Each patient presents a story; finding the heart of that story is the doct...
Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Genome sequencing is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past thirty years. But what precisely does it involve and how is it deve...
Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The story of DDT as you’ve never heard it before: a fresh look at the much-maligned chemical compound as a cautionary tale of how powerful corporati...
“Vaccine: The Human Story”: A Chat with Historian and Podcaster Annie Kelly
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Vaccine: The Human Story” is a podcast and video series that tells the story of the global fight against smallpox, from its earliest history as a...
Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The last few years have brought to the fore the brilliant work of scientists as they worked to find a vaccine for Covid-19. But have you ever stopped ...
Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China (U Minnesota Press, 2021) examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions...
Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and cel...
Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-f...
Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when...
Bharat Jayram Venkat, "At the Limits of Cure" (Duke UP, 2021)
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that ...
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of ...
Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human his...
Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Insects are seldom mentioned in discussions surrounding human history, yet they have dramatically impacted today's societies. The Silken Thread: Five...
Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Guns hold a complex place in American culture. Over 30,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, and guns are intimately connected to issues of p...
R. John Aitken, "The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A potential crisis in human fertility is brewing. As societies become more affluent, they experience changes that have a dramatic impact on reproducti...
Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A detailed exploration of parents' fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy The su...
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2010 it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter of days at an accessible cost for many millions of people. Along wi...
Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021)
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A ...
Steven G. Epstein, "The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something c...
Andrew Doig, "This Mortal Coil: A History of Death" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely...
Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Berry, Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese...
Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Few substances have been researched as extensively, and debated as fiercely, as cannabis. In Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannab...
Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when ...
Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2021)
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading ...
Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn about h...
Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra, "Conquer Your Diabetes: Prevention, Control, Remission" (2022)
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The global epidemic of diabetes and prediabetes afflicts more than 1 billion people. And sadly, more than 50% of people with the disease do not achiev...
Guy Beiner, "Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919" (Oxford UP, 2021)
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919 (Oxford UP, 2021), edited by Guy Beiner, offers a multi-level and mu...
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Postscript uniquely engages abortion politics by addressing structural political issues (voter suppression, gerrymandering, dilutions of m...
Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to John Tregoning, Imperial College respiratory infections...
Morteza Mahmoudi, "A Brief Guide to Academic Bullying" (Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2021)
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Targets of bullying are often the most vulnerable members of the scientific workforce-they may be low-paid graduate students or postdocs, living in a ...
Christopher Donoghue, "The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents" (NYU Press, 2022)
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
School shootings and suicides by young victims of bullying have spurred a proliferation of anti-bullying programs, yet most of the research done on sc...
Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young wom...
Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to bestselling author and University of Oxford law profess...
Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to bestselling author and University of Oxford law profess...
Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigm...