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The Health Humanist

By: Amanda Caleb
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  • Summary

  • A Health-Humanities take on health and health access. Produced by the Medical and Health Humanities program at Misericordia University, this podcast has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities CARES grant, “Humanities in the Time of COVID-19: Fostering Community Dialogue,” Award Number: AH-274885-20. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.misericordia.edu/medicalhumanities
    Copyright 2020 All rights reserved.
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Episodes
  • Episode 7: "Victorian" Diseases Today

    Episode 7: "Victorian" Diseases Today
    Dec 21 2020

    In this episode, I discuss so-called Victorian era diseases and their relevance to today with Professor Keir Waddington, Professor of History at Cardiff University, and Professor Andrew Mangham, Professor of English at the University of Reading.

    Image credit: "A court for King Cholera." Illustration by John Leech. From the Wellcome Collection
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    40 mins
  • Episode 6: Pandemic Stress in Higher Education

    Episode 6: Pandemic Stress in Higher Education
    Dec 2 2020

    In this episode, I discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental and physical health of students and faculty at colleges and universities. 

    Episode image: “Coronavirus Brain” by Gordon Johnson
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    20 mins
  • Episode 5: The House of God

    Episode 5: The House of God
    Nov 18 2020

    In this episode, I talk with Kim Adams, a postdoctoral scholar in the core curriculum at New York University, about the medical novel The House of God, a cultural artifact of the 1970s and a text still relevant to critiques of the health care system today.

    Episode image the cover of The House of God from the first edition published by Richard Marek Publishers.
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    28 mins
Hygiene & Healthy Living Social Sciences
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