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  • Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security" (Bristol University Press, 2024)
    Jun 7, 2025 – 01:04:05
  • Kathleen Miller, ed., "Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World" (Penn State UP, 2025)
    Jun 3, 2025 – 36:24
  • Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
    Jun 2, 2025 – 01:05:30
  • Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
    May 31, 2025 – 01:04:34
  • Jaap de Roode, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2025)
    May 28, 2025 – 45:10
  • Gina Leola Woolsey, "Fifteen Thousand Pieces" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
    May 27, 2025 – 36:48
  • Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
    May 16, 2025 – 28:44
  • Edward L. Jones III, "Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder: What Really Killed the Crespi Twins?" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
    May 6, 2025 – 01:07:56
  • Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    Apr 28, 2025 – 01:07:52
  • Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
    Apr 23, 2025 – 01:12:47
  • Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
    Apr 21, 2025 – 51:58
  • Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
    Apr 4, 2025 – 01:09:04
  • Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
    Apr 3, 2025 – 01:01:58
  • Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
    Apr 2, 2025 – 47:33
  • Alisha Ali et al., "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health" (Routledge, 2024)
    Mar 26, 2025 – 55:23
  • Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    Mar 24, 2025 – 01:00:20
  • John Trowsdale, "What the Body Knows: A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System" (Yale UP, 2024)
    Mar 18, 2025 – 39:17
  • Zhiying Ma, "Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2025)
    Mar 14, 2025 – 01:02:04
  • Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
    Mar 12, 2025 – 01:12:02
  • Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)
    Mar 9, 2025 – 01:11:27
  • Ibn Butlan, "The Doctors' Dinner Party: A Satirical Novella " (NYU Press, 2023)
    Mar 8, 2025 – 43:49
  • Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
    Mar 7, 2025 – 01:07:29
  • Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)
    Mar 2, 2025 – 01:17:33
  • Steven Lesk, "Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness" (Prometheus, 2023)
    Feb 26, 2025 – 01:05:12
  • Nicole Lobdell, "X-Ray" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
    Feb 19, 2025 – 49:39
  • Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
    Feb 12, 2025 – 55:28
  • Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)
    Feb 10, 2025 – 59:39
  • Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    Feb 9, 2025 – 49:10
  • Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
    Feb 4, 2025 – 59:34
  • Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
    Feb 3, 2025 – 01:16:12
  • Rachel Marie Niehuus, "An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo" (Duke UP, 2024)
    Jan 28, 2025 – 01:08:26
  • Erica Borgstrom and Renske Visser, "Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement" (Routledge, 2024)
    Jan 26, 2025 – 59:34
  • Casey Golomski, "God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
    Jan 22, 2025 – 01:12:32
  • Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Jan 15, 2025 – 39:22
  • Barbara J. Sahakian and Christelle Langley, "Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
    Jan 13, 2025 – 31:56
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    Jan 7, 2025 – 47:15
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    Jan 5, 2025 – 35:17
  • Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
    Jan 2, 2025 – 01:04:45
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    Jan 2, 2025 – 57:12
  • Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
    Dec 27, 2024 – 01:07:43
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    Dec 20, 2024 – 43:33
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    Dec 16, 2024 – 01:21:26
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    Dec 11, 2024 – 52:21
  • Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West" (U Texas Press, 2024)
    Dec 11, 2024 – 46:28
  • Aisha M Beliso-de Jesús, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease" (Duke UP, 2024)
    Dec 10, 2024 – 56:09
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    Dec 6, 2024 – 50:30
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    Dec 5, 2024 – 01:18:52
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    Dec 3, 2024 – 01:04:02
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    Dec 3, 2024 – 53:22
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    Nov 28, 2024 – 54:07
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