RTBS 02 03 "COVID-19: Rhetorics of Infection, Resources of Resistance"
In this episode, we join forces with Pitt’s Center for Bioethics & Health Law to present a special Medical Humanities Mondays panel discussion on the ...
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We know where the bodies are hidden. An anatomy professor, an English professor, and a future med student talk about the history of the human body in medicine, anatomy, and culture. Topics discussed may include medical museums, anatomical grave-robbing, organ transplantation, disability studies, unusual bodies, prosthetics, implants, body modification...whatever catches our interest (and we are interested in some rather odd things).
RTBS 02 02 "Do not open that airlock: Notes from the COVID-19 Bunker”
In this special gonzo episode, Emma, Jake, and Jeff broadcast on improvised equipment from their respective pandemic shelters as the COVID-19 crisis e...
RTBS 02 01 "Voyage of the Damned: A Cruise through the Coronavirus Epidemic"
In this episode, we delve accurately if irreverently into the Covid-19 epidemic. It’s everything you’ve always wanted to know (and probably a few thi...
RTBS 01 08 “Of Medical Flesh and Blood Libel: The Polish ‘Cadaver Affair,’ Medical Education, and Inter-War Anti-Semitism”
In this episode, Natalia Aleksiun, Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, joins us in the studio to discuss her work on Jewish medical s...
RTBS 01 07 “Plasticize Me: You Too Can Exhibit Human Remains for Entertainment and Profit”
In this episode, your hosts turn their scalpels on the strange and ethically-murky world of human body exhibitions. We discuss Gunther von Hagens, the...
RTBS 01 06: “The Fox and the Hound: Co-Evolving with our Furry Friends”
In this episode, we sniff into the strange territory of domestication and co-evolution with our special guest Anne Burrows, Professor of Anatomy at Du...
RTBS 01 05: “The Needle Has Landed: Vaccine Science and Anti-Vaccine Activism, Past and Present.”
As vaccine fever runs high, UHC Brackenridge fellow Lo Reese joins Emma, Jake, and Jeff in the studio for a discussion about vaccines and the people w...
RTBS 01 04 "Missing, Presumed Dead: Dirty Secrets from the History of the Trade in Human Cadavers"
In this episode, we dig deeply into the troubling history of obtaining human bodies for anatomical dissection and medical education. From disappearin...
RTBS 01 03 "69 and Us: The Strange World of Commercial Genetic Testing"
In this episode, Jake, Emma, and Jeff poke their instruments into the brave new world of commercial genetic testing. In a time when the swab of a che...
RTBS 01 02 "The Human Side of Sideshow: Performing Prodigies and Unusual Bodies from Barnum to Brighton Beach"
Emma, Jake, and Jeff talk about people with unusual, non-normative, or prodigious bodies who took their gifts on the road, performing before delighted...