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Interviews with scholars of public health about their new books

Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024)

November 10, 2024

The Life and Death of Ryan White

Paul M. Renfro
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan Whi…

Ethel Tungohan, "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

November 7, 2024

Care Activism

Ethel Tungohan
Hosted by Ailin Zhou

Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden …

Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)

November 6, 2024

Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires

Stuart Anderson
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standard…

Gareth Millward, "Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State" (Oxford UP, 2022)

November 5, 2024

Sick Note

Gareth Millward
Hosted by Dion Georgiou

Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical…

Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self" (Lexington Books, 2023)

November 3, 2024

Carceral Recovery

Sanaullah Khan
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditio…

Sabina Faiz Rashid, "Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows" (Routledge, 2024)

October 29, 2024

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh

Sabina Faiz Rashid

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict th…

Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)

October 23, 2024

The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt

Michael G. Vann
Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi

A funny thing happened to historian Michael Vann* on the way to his PhD thesis. While he was doing his research on French colonialism and the urbanist…

Anna Lora-Wainwright, "Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China" (MIT Press, 2021)

October 20, 2024

Resigned Activism

Anna Lora-Wainwright
Hosted by Elena Sobrino

Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and …

Susan Grant, "Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism" (Cornell UP, 2022)

October 19, 2024

Soviet Nightingales

Susan Grant
Hosted by Alisa Kuzmina

In Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism (Cornell UP, 2022), Susan Grant examines the history of nursing care in the Soviet Union from its ninetee…

Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton, "Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

October 5, 2024

Being Ill

Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partners and fami…

Mercy Ships (with Reanne Newquist)

October 1, 2024

Mercy Ships

Reanne Newquist

Reanne Newquist tells me about her voyage on Mercy Ships bringing healthcare to some of the poorest people in the world, a mission started by Don Step…

Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)

September 20, 2024

The Balanced Brain

Camilla Nord

There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific devel…

John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

September 4, 2024

Russia in the Time of Cholera

John P. Davis
Hosted by Aaron Weinacht

The idea of “backwardness” often plagues historical writing on Russia. In Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets (Bloomsbur…

John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

September 2, 2024

Red Hot + Blue

John S. Garrison
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

John Garrison's Red Hot + Blue (33 1/3 Series) (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sen…

Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

August 31, 2024

Soda Science

Susan Greenhalgh
Hosted by Garima Garg

Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where power…

Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

August 12, 2024

Invisible Labours

Aimee Louise Middlemiss
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events a…

Alice Mah, "Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation" (Duke UP, 2023)

August 8, 2024

Petrochemical Planet

Alice Mah
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Is a green future possible? In Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (Duke UP, 2023), Alice Mah, a Professor in Urban…

The GiveWell Method: Uri Bram on the Best Ways to Donate

August 7, 2024

The GiveWell Method

Uri Bram
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for…

Fella Benabed, "Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel" (de Gruyter, 2024)

July 27, 2024

Applied Global Health Humanities

Fella Benabed
Hosted by Shu Wan

Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de Gruyter, 2024) highlights the importance of global …

Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)

July 26, 2024

The Virus Touch

Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global…