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The Wound Man—a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases—was reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe. In Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton Uni... more

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Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing (MIT Press, 2025) is a book about artificial eyes—about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changing and sometimes life-saving experience of wearing them, as author Dan Roche has don... more

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Jack Hartnell
Art historian and author
Princeton University Press
Episode: Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Joseph A. Schafer
Co-editor of the book and former professor at SIU Carbondale, currently at Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Episode: Breanne Pleggenkuhle and Joseph A. Schafer, "Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses and Adaptations in the US Criminal Justice System" (Southern Illinois UP, 2025)
Dr. Dan Roche
English professor and author of 'Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing'
LeMoyne College
Episode: Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025)
Dr. Helen Epstein
Public health expert and author
Bard College
Episode: Helen C. Epstein, "Why Live: An Anatomy of Suicide Epidemics" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
Agnes Arnold-Forster
Historian of medicine, work, and the emotions
McGill University
Episode: Agnes Arnold-Forster, "The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dr. Susan Boyd
Scholar, activist, and distinguished professor emerita at the University of Victoria
University of Victoria
Episode: Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)
Christopher Kemp
Author and research scientist focusing on neuroscience
Episode: Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
Stacia Kalinoski
Emmy Award-winning TV news journalist and author.
Author of Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy
Episode: Stacia Kalinoski, "Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Dr. Melody Glenn
Practicing physician and associate professor of addiction and emergency medicine
University of Arizona
Episode: Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis" (Beacon Press, 2025)

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  • Thank You!

    Love these interviews with authors. As a medical trainee it expands my understanding of the medical field and the contributions we can all make to healthcare. <3

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    kjohnson16
    United States8 months ago
  • Wonderful product

    I got to listening to NBN podcasts a while back, and am hooked on to them. The books chosen are usually great ones; every 5th or so book seems not very interesting. The interviewers do a fantastic job. The only complaint I have is that the audio quality is something a little iffy - clearly, this is because the interviews are being done via Skype. The podcast makes dont hide this fact; they are probably working on a low budget so I understand that. But, if you can get past the quality of the soun... more

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    United States9 years ago

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Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
Q: Does financialization inhibit medicine?
Yes, financialization affects healthcare access negatively, leading to an underfunded healthcare system and making it harder for people to get necessary treatments, as seen in both Uganda and the US.
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
Q: How does financialization increase the risk of, for example, mosquito-borne disease if we move to Brazil?
Financialization in Brazil led to significant landscape changes due to agricultural expansion, which created conditions conducive to mosquito breeding and the resurgence of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika.
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
Q: Can you help us understand how processes of financialization enhance the conditions for Lyme disease in the US?
Lyme disease incidence has increased due to changes in mortgage regulations and landscape change that allow for more tick populations to thrive and also complicate health insurance coverage for affected individuals.
Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Q: But I want to talk more about this wimple, because you mentioned that it's a key part of that image.
I think it gets in the case of the disease woman, it's interesting to think about who might be using this book and why.
Jack Hartnell, "Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Q: So are there any sort of precursor images to this one that we should understand?
It's really interesting and useful to think about medieval European images and images in what we might think of as the diagrammatic tradition, which use the body to explain or to connect or to think about a particular concept.

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