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
Oct 24
Chris van Tulleken, "Ultra-Processed People: Why we Can't Stop Eating Food that isn't Food" (2025)
En su conversación sobre Ultra-Processed People: Why we Can't Stop Eating Food that isn't Food, Herlihy-Mera, Lahie Luna y Bustos Lemus utilizan el texto de van Tulleken para dialogar sobre la comida como una experiencia capitalista, el desarrollo de “Critical Food Studies”, la r ... Show More
56m 18s
Oct 10
Catalina Saldaña Lagos, "Sífilis en Chile: Ciencia, práctica médica y sociedad, 1850-1950" (2023)
En una investigación que cubre cien años de nuestra historia republicana, Catalina Saldaña nos revela de manera elocuente y rigurosamente documentada, el reconocimiento de la sífilis, el seguimiento de los casos y el registro de una práctica clínica estricta, la puesta en práctic ... Show More
1h 2m
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
28m 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