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NB Medicine New Books in Medicine is an author-interview podcast channel that showcases recently-published books in the medical field.

It has a library of over 150 podcast episodes. New Books in Medicine is part of the New Books Network author-interview podcast consortium (http://www.newbooksnetwork.com)

By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in twelve could expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth complicati...
29/06/2022

By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in twelve could expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth complication in Malawi. Specific deaths became object lessons. Explanatory stories circulated through hospitals and villages, proliferating among a range of practitioners: nurse-midwives, traditional birth attendants, doctors, epidemiologists, herbalists. Was biology to blame? Economic underdevelopment? Immoral behavior? Tradition? Were the dead themselves at fault?

In PARTIAL STORIES: Maternal Death from Six Angles (University of Chicago Press), Claire L. Wendland considers these explanations for maternal death, showing how they reflect competing visions of the past and shared concerns about social change. Drawing on extended fieldwork, Wendland reveals how efforts to legitimate a single story as the authoritative version can render care more dangerous than it might otherwise be. Historical, biological, technological, ethical, statistical, and political perspectives on death usually circulate in different expert communities and different bodies of literature. Here, Wendland considers them together, illuminating dilemmas of maternity care in contexts of acute change, chronic scarcity, and endemic inequity within Malawi and beyond. Author-interview podcast link ⬇️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/partial-stories

In the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy,...
17/06/2022

In the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of the time, the psychiatrist diagnosed Jessy with autism and blamed Clara for Jessy's isolation. Experts claimed Clara was the prototypical "refrigerator mother," a cold, intellectual parent who starved her children of the natural affection they needed to develop properly.

Refusing to accept this, Clara decided to document her daughter's behaviors and the family's engagement with her. In 1967, she published her groundbreaking memoir challenging the refrigerator mother theory and carefully documenting Jessy's development. Clara's insights and advocacy encouraged other parents to seek education and support for their autistic children. Meanwhile, Jessy would work hard to expand her mother's world, and ours.

Drawing on previously unexamined archival sources and firsthand interviews, science historian Marga Vicedo illuminates the story of how Clara Park and other parents fought against medical and popular attitudes toward autism while presenting a rich account of major scientific developments in the history of autism in the US. INTELLIGENT LOVE: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother (Beacon Press) is a fierce defense of a mother's right to love intelligently, the value of parents' firsthand knowledge about their children, and an individual's right to be valued by society. Learn more on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/intelligent-love

Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where d...
27/05/2022

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 to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a lack of it. Why have the reasons we die changed so much? How is it that a century ago people died mainly from infectious disease, while today the leading causes of death in industrialised nations are heart disease and stroke? And what do changing causes of death reveal about how previous generations have lived?

Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at particular causes – from infectious disease to genetic disease, violence to diet – who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overcome them. Along the way we hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role in preventing scurvy; the Irish immigrant who opened the first washhouse for the poor of Liverpool, and in so doing educated the public on the importance of cleanliness in combating disease; and the Church of England curate who, finding his new church equipped with a telephone, started the Samaritans to assist those in emotional distress.

THIS MORTAL COIL: A History of Death (Bloomsbury Academic) is a thrilling story of growing medical knowledge and social organization, of achievement and, looking to the future, of promise. AUTHOR INTERVIEW PODCAST 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/this-mortal-coil

PANDEMIC RE-AWAKENINGS: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919 (Oxford Universitsy Press, edited by Gu...
12/05/2022

PANDEMIC RE-AWAKENINGS: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919 (Oxford Universitsy Press, edited by Guy Beiner, offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. The volume reveals how, even though the Great Flu was overshadowed by the commemorative culture of the Great War, recollections of the pandemic persisted over time to re-emerge towards the centenary of the 'Spanish' Flu and burst into public consciousness following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters chart historiographical neglect (while acknowledging the often-unnoticed dialogues between scientific and historical discourses), probe silences, and trace vestiges of social and cultural memories that long remained outside of what was considered collective memory. Delve deeper on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/pandemic-re-awakenings

Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve”...
12/05/2022

Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. THE CAGE of DAYS: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison (Columbia University Press) combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience. Drawing from Carceral’s field notes, his interviews with fellow inmates, and convict memoirs, this book reveals what time does to prisoners and what prisoners do to time. Learn more about the project on the podcast ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-cage-of-days

Mid-century America had a problem talking about s*x. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led...
29/04/2022

Mid-century America had a problem talking about s*x. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigmatize s*x education. Supporters hailed her as the “grandmother of modern s*x education” while her detractors painted her as an “aging libertine,” but both could agree that she was quickly shaping the way s*x was discussed in the classroom.

Part biography, part social history, THE TRANSFORMATION of AMERICAN S*X EDUCATION: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health (NYU Press) for the first time situates Dr. Mary Calderone at the center of decades of political, cultural, and religious conflict in the fight for comprehensive s*x education. Listen in as Ellen S. More describes Americans’ attempts to come to terms with the vexed subject of s*x education in schools from the late 1940s to the early twenty-first century on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-transformation-of-american-s*x-education

When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China....
21/04/2022

When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population.

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes’s book, INTIMATE COMMUNITIES: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945 (University of California Press), argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites’ conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. Learn more on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/intimate-communities

UNDOING DRUGS: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (Hachette Book Group) tells a long-running...
15/04/2022

UNDOING DRUGS: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (Hachette Book Group) tells a long-running, but largely unknown, story of how a few people and groups – propelled at first by the AIDS pandemic -- swam against one of the most powerful policy tides in America – our nation’s 50-year war on drugs. Maia Szalavitz’s book is a personal and political history of the idea of harm reduction, which is a philosophy, a set of health practices, and a call to action. Harm reduction is a powerful alternative to virtually all of the “conventional wisdom” about drugs and drug policy. Learn more as Szalavitz discusses the book on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/undoing-drugs

Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that all...
18/02/2022

Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds.

With an intoxicating blend of history and intrigue, Sara Manning Peskin invites readers to play medical detective, tracing each diagnosis from the patient to an ailing nervous system. Along the way, Peskin entertains with tales of the sometimes outlandish, often criticized, and forever devoted scientists who discovered it all. Learn more about A MOLECULE AWAY from MADNESS: Tales of the Hijacked Brain (W. W. Norton & Company) on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-molecule-away-from-madness-tales-of-the-hijacked-brain

In 1948, the World Health Organization began to prepare its social psychiatry project, which aimed to discover the epide...
14/01/2022

In 1948, the World Health Organization began to prepare its social psychiatry project, which aimed to discover the epidemiology and arrive at a classification of mental disorders. In MAD by the MILLIONS: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization (MIT Press), Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO's ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a “world psyche.” Wu shows that the WHO's idealized scientific internationalism laid the foundations for today's highly metricalized global mental health system. Delve deeper on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/mad-by-the-millions

In this lively, unexpected look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History ...
30/12/2021

In this lively, unexpected look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History zoologist Bill Schutt tells an incredible story of evolution and scientific progress.

Written with verve and authority, weaving evolutionary perspectives with cultural history, PUMP: A Natural History of the Heart (Algonquin Books) shows us this mysterious organ in a completely new light. Give the author's NBN interview a listen ↙

https://newbooksnetwork.com/pump

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