La pregunta sobre nuestras formas de curación, tratamientos médicos, solución de enfermedades, itinerarios terapéuticos, sistemas de salud, políticas de salud pública, y todo lo que rodea a nuestra salud y medicina, es una pregunta amplia que tiene múltiples formas de responder y entender. En especial cuando no solo hablamos de la medicina -en singular- sino ... Show More
Jan 15
Hugues R. Sánchez Mejía y Adriana Yaneth Santos Delgado, "La Estación Experimental Agrícola de Palmira (Valle del Cauca, Colombia): Innovaciones biológicas, fitomejoramiento y difusión científica, 1928-1944" (2025)
En esta entrevista se aborda la creación y funcionamiento de la Estación Experimental Agrícola de Palmira, entre los años 1928 y 1944. Se describe, a partir de diversos informes de gobierno, el contexto de su surgimiento y la forma como se institucionalizó su funcionamiento, espe ... Show More
34m 10s
Jan 8
Sonia Rosa Vélez, "Golpe de Agua" (2021)
En su conversación sobre Golpe de Agua, (Ediciones Enserio, 2021), un poemario póstumo de Sonia M. (Chiqui) Rosa Vélez, Mariam Ludim Rosa Vélez, Irmarie Cruz, Stacy Hernández y Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera dialogan sobre la capacidad sanadora de las palabras, la cultura de la diáspora pu ... Show More
1 h
May 2024
Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023)
In a broken world, in which even God Himself is in a state of deep crisis, what is required in order to mend the rupture? How can one heal God and His world? Moreover, what might allow our actions to be effective? These questions stand at the heart of the Lurianic Kabbalah, the a ... Show More
40m 56s
Apr 2017
Episode #18: Diagnosis: Art History (Season 1, Episode 18)
Over the centuries, there have been numerous examples of fine artists creating works of art that deliberately work with and within contemporaneous medical thought, portraying people with particular ailments or diseases. But what about if we turn that concept around a little bit? ... Show More
26m 50s
May 2023
Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000 (Bloomsbury, 2023): Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how ... Show More
54m 3s
Oct 2020
Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond" (Transcript Verlag, 2020)
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a conte ... Show More
59m 13s