Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGerald O'Brien, "Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 30
Gerald O'Brien's book Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession (Oxf…
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The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis
Episode 76
The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are …
2 years, 6 months ago
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 157
In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech ind…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ben Mattlin, "Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World" (Beacon, 2022)
Episode 29
In Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World (Beacon, 2022), disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to int…
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Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
Episode 162
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in …
2 years, 6 months ago
Hava Rachel Gordon, "This Is Our School!: Race and Community Resistance to School Reform" (NYU Press, 2021)
Episode 216
Parents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School!: Race and Community …
2 years, 6 months ago
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 669
Sarah Coleman, an historian at Texas State University, is the author of an important and topical book about immigration policy in the United States. …
2 years, 6 months ago
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 14
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of…
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Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 353
A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 185…
2 years, 6 months ago
Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 206
The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as 19…
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