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We often hear stories of people in terrible situations who are preyed upon by people offering promises of help. EXPLOITING HOPE(@OUPAcademic) offers an in-depth study of hope's exploitation. Tune in as @jeremycsnyder joins @dr_claireclark on the podcast👇 newbooksnetwork.com/exploiting-hope

Spanning four centuries of discovery, BEDEVILED (@PrincetonUPress) reveals how the greatest scientific thinkers used demons to explore problems, test the limits of what is possible, and better understand nature. 🎙️@_Jimena_Canales joins @dr_claireclark 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/bedeviled

It was wonderful to talk to @dr_claireclark about my book FEELING MEDICINE for @NewBooksNetwork @NYUpress newbooksnetwork.com/feeling-medici… #soctwitter #MedTwitter #phdchat #AcademicChatter

Based on interviews with med students, faculty, and people who use their own bodies to teach the pelvic exam, FEELING MEDICINE (@NYUpress) looks at this essential, yet seldom discussed aspect of medical education. 📙@KellyUnderman joins @dr_claireclark 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/feeling-medici…

Instead of treating the heart, soul and mind, we now take a pill to treat the brain. CHEMICALLY IMBALANCED (@UChicagoPress) is sociologist Joseph E Davis' field report on how ordinary people with common problems are increasingly turning to meds. Tune in👇 newbooksnetwork.com/joseph-e-davis…

What can people who use drugs teach us about contemporary societies emerging in post-Soviet space? Listen in as @veruka2 joins @steven_seegel to discuss NARKOMANIA (@CornellPress), her new ethnography about drugs, HIV, and citizenship in today's Ukraine👇 newbooksnetwork.com/jennifer-j-car…

Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, ATOMIC DOCTORS (@Harvard_Press) struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. James L. Nolan joins us ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/james-l-nolan-…

Public health reformers in the early 20th century believed they could make systemic issues visual to masses of people through attractive displays. 🎙️Jennifer Lisa Koslow joins Claire Clark to talk about EXHIBITING HEALTH (@RutgersUPress) on the podcast 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/jennifer-lisa-…

Drawing on interviews with midlife patients in Colorado, THE MEDICALIZATION OF MARIJUANA (@Routledge_Socio) explores the practical decisions individuals confront about the medical use of cannabis. 🎙️Michelle Newhart and William Dolphin join @LucRichert ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/m-newhart-and-…

Delving into the science of human thriving, GROWING YOUNG (@randomhouse) helps us understand how every one of our days between now and, if we’re lucky, 100 might be full and rich and immensely gratifying. 🎙️Science journalist @mzaraska joins @eclemay 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/marta-zaraska-…

How has the perception of diabetes evolved? DIABETES: A History of Race and Disease (@yalepress) explores the connotations patients, advocates, physicians, and policymakers have attached to the disease over the past two centuries. @TuchmanA joins us👇 newbooksnetwork.com/arleen-tuchman…

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Find out why as Boel Berner joins Claire Clark to discuss STRANGE BLOOD (@transcriptweb) on the podcast 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/boel-berner-st…

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. TO MAKE the WOUNDED WHOLE (@uncpressblog) offers the 1st history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. @danroyles joins us👇 newbooksnetwork.com/dan-royles-to-…

Listen to an interview with John Whysner author of THE ALCHEMY OF DISEASE @NewBooksMed as he details the experiments and discoveries that revealed the causal connections between chemical exposures and diseases. #toxicology buff.ly/3iZDaFl

Today’s guest is investigative journalist and author @geraldposner, who joins us to discuss PHARMA, which (@simonschuster) explores the complex history of pharmaceutical industry. It is an industry like no other and a story like no other. Listen in! 🎧⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/gerald-posner-…

In #99Days, the coronavirus pandemic will play a major role in how Americans vote. Find out how Covid-19 will influence the #2020Elections in the latest episode. @Jeremyccorr @FixingHCPodcast @NewBooksMed @NewBooksNetwork fixinghealthcarepodcast.com/2020/07/27/17-…

.@wendymoore99, author of NO MAN'S LAND: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital during World War I (@BasicBooks), joins @peerspectrum to discuss a hospital staffed by women who treated over 26,000 soldiers. Tune in👇 newbooksnetwork.com/wendy-moore-no…

Comparing disease control in Britain and the US from the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philly to the H1N1 panics of recent times, DISEASED STATES (@umasspress) offers a blueprint for managing pandemics in the 21st century. Charles Allan McCoy joins us 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/charles-allan-…

Combining history, epidemiology, and public health research, NO GAME FOR BOYS to PLAY (@uncpressblog) examines American football from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian. Tune in as @bachyns joins @keithrathbone on the podcast👇 newbooksnetwork.com/kathleen-bachy…

Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. On this episode Elizabeth A. Williams sits down w/@dr_claireclark to discuss APPETITE and ITS DISCONTENTS (@UChicagoPress)👂👇 newbooksnetwork.com/elizabeth-a-wi…