Perspectives on Science
Episodes
The Economization of Global Health: World Development Report 1993
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This seminar in the Economization of Global Health series focuses on the origins, production and reception of one of the major moments in the economiz...
Sebastian Gil-Riano on Racial Science
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastián Gil-Riaño examines how scientific articulations of human diversity have been used to both legitimize and confront notions of race and raci...
Sadiah Qureshi on Racial Science
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sadiah Qureshi recounts the history of the exhibition of displayed peoples in nineteenth-century Britain, and how these shows contributed to the forma...
Jonson Miller — Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode, we talk with Jonson Miller, author of Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute. In Engineer...
John Jackson on Racial Science
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Jackson discusses the legacy of nineteenth-century racial science on twentieth-century scientific investigation, the challenge to racial science ...
Rana Hogarth on Racial Science
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rana Hogarth talks about how white physicians "medicalized" blackness in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and how African-Americans...
Black Maternal Health: Historical and Reproductive Justice Reckonings
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This event looks at the profound health inequities around giving birth, further laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussions with experts include h...
Mary Fissell — Aristotle's Masterpiece: Early Modern Sex Ed
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Follow along with Professor Mary Fissell as she discusses her research on Aristotle's Masterpiece, a late 17th century sex, midwifery, and childbirth ...
Presidents of AAHM, HSS, and SHOT
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Fellows of the Consortium and Jan Golinski, Thomas Misa, and Keith Wailoo, the respective presidents of the History of Science Society, Society f...
Technology Then And Now
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between technological change and economic development? Do the roots of the 'knowledge economy' lie in sixteenth century Europ...
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan on COVID-19
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan reflects on public engagement, political history, and the COVID-19 crisis in India. Find this podcast and more in the Consort...
Mary Augusta Brazelton on COVID-19
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Augusta Brazelton talks about the COVID-19 crisis along with the history of public health and modernization in China. Find this podcast and more...
Marcos Cueto on COVID-19
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marcos Cueto discusses the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series on COVID-19 at: https://www.chstm.org/vid...
Amir Afkhami on COVID-19
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amir Afkhami discusses the history of epidemic disease in Iran, including the current crisis. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series o...
Nursing and COVID-19
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cindy Connolly, Patricia D'Antonio, and Julie Fairman discuss the role of nurses and the nursing profession in the history of pandemics. Find this po...
Catherine Burns on COVID-19 in South Africa
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Burns explores the COVID-19 crisis in South Africa in the context of the history of HIV/AIDS. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium'...
Why Go To The Moon
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Fifty years later, five nations have...
Elena Conis on COVID-19
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Conis examines how we use history, especially of the polio epidemics, when we discuss the COVID-19 pandemic. Find this podcast and more in the ...
Nancy Tomes on COVID-19
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Tomes reflects on the experience of being a historian of medicine during the COVID-19 epidemic, and interdisciplinary efforts to respond to the ...
Dora Vargha On COVID-19
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dora Vargha talks about the role of international institutions during a pandemic. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series on COVID-19 a...
Betty Smocovitis on COVID-19
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis provides us with an introduction to the history and evolution of infectious disease. Find this podcast and more in the Con...
Dora Vargha — Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, we discuss the history of vaccines and public health with Dora Vargha, author of Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War wi...
James Poskett — Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode, we talk with James Poskett, author of Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920. ...
Kathryn Olivarius on COVID-19
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Olivarius recounts how epidemics have exacerbated social and economical inequalities. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series o...
Joseph Martin — Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Joseph Martin, author of Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter. Joseph M...
Cameron Strang — Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South...
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Cameron Strang, author of Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands: 1500-18...
Natalia Molina COVID-19
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Natalia Molina discusses the intersection of race and public health during the covid-19 and other pandemics. Find this podcast and more in the Consor...
Michael Robinson — The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed...
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode, we discuss the history of how biblical notions of race influenced European understandings of Africa with Michael Robinson, au...
Rewriting the Story of Girls’ Education in STEM: Past and Present
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is the story of American girls’ and women’s access to science and math education a direct path from exclusion to inclusion? What does equity for g...
Shopping for Health: Medicine and Markets in America
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we refer to patients as "consumers" in the United States? Is today's opioid crisis the result of medical consumerism run amok--of pills hawked ...
Trust In Science: Vaccines
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join us to examine vaccine skepticism, in contemporary America, historically, and in the clinic. What are the historical roots of resistance to vaccin...
Samuel Redman — Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss race, anthropology, and the collection and display of human remains with Samuel Redman. Sam is Associate Professor of Hist...
Sickness and The City
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many social, economic, and political factors affect urban health on local, regional and global scales. Examples from near and far, past and present, a...
Immortal Life: The Promises and Perils of Biobanking and the Genetic Archive
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are we now approaching a time when we could all live, at least in freezers, forever? Modern collection and storage of biological samples make possible...
Christopher Jones — Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will discuss energy, environment, and the origins of the American fossil fuel paradigm with Christopher Jones. Christopher is Assi...
Melanie Kiechle — Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What's that smell? Join us as we discuss the history of cities, senses and public health. The first episode of our new podcast series features Melani...