Higiene, salud y ambiente en perspectiva histórica: Cali a comienzos del siglo XX, estudia las características relativas al panorama higiénico y sanitario de la realidad nacional y regional del Valle y del Cauca, a partir de un ejercicio historiográfico que abarca diferentes momentos históricos, para luego situarse, con especial énfasis, en el análisis del c ... 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
Jun 2023
Before Roe: The Physicians' Crusade (2022)
Abortion wasn't always controversial. In fact, in colonial America it would have been considered a fairly common practice: a private decision made by women, and aided mostly by midwives. But in the mid-1800s, a small group of physicians set out to change that. Obstetrics was a ne ... Show More
52m 48s
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
Mar 2024
L'impact de l'industrie sur la santé aux 19e et 20e siècles - Entretien avec Judith Rainhorn
<p>Mes chers camarades, bien le bonjour ! </p><p>Quand on parle histoire et industrie, à quoi pensez-vous ? De mon côté, l’une des premières choses me venant en tête est la révolution industrielle ayant eu lieu au 19e siècle. Mais au-delà de ça, ce phénomène reste un peu flou pou ... Show More
1h 46m
Feb 2021
Cholera! Public health in mid-19th century Britain
The 1848-1849 cholera epidemic in England and Wales was described by a government report as if a ‘foreign army’ had ‘held possession of the country, and slain 53,293 men, women and children’. In the mid-19th century the country faced an epidemic of filth; poorly drained, overcrow ... Show More
40m 27s
Dec 2020
166: Medical Humanities: Pandemics, Food Shaming & Social Science – Dr. Kari Nixon
<p>"Medical humanities can be defined as an interdisciplinary, and increasingly international endeavor that draws on the creative and intellectual strengths of diverse disciplines, including literature, art, creative writing, drama, film, music, philosophy, ethical decision makin ... Show More
54m 54s
Nov 2023
Ep 130 Cocoliztli: We do love a salty dish
<p>In the 16th century, a series of deadly epidemics swept through much of the region of Mesoamerica known as the Aztec Empire, killing untold millions. By the start of the first of these epidemics, the area had become woefully accustomed to devasting epidemic disease, as the Spa ... Show More
1h 52m
Mar 2020
The Deadliest Pandemic in Modern History
April 5, 1918. The first mention of a new influenza outbreak in Kansas appears in a public health report. That strain, later called the Spanish Flu, would go on to kill at least 50 million people worldwide. In a time before widespread global travel, how did this disease spread so ... Show More
21m 24s
May 2021
Keeping Lungs Healthy: A Discussion of Respiratory Health in Vietnam with Professor Gregory Fox
The COVID-19 virus has brought the spotlight to respiratory health. Over the past year, we have become more aware than ever of cough and cold-like symptoms, fevers, feeling tired, shortness of breath and any other indicators that our immune system is fighting off an infection. Bu ... Show More
15m 55s