Body Politics: where history, medicine and society collide
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Body Politics: where history, medicine and society collide
Medicine has always been about more than just science; it has also been an arena where politics, culture and society collide. Tune in every other Thursday to Body Politics and explore how those collisions have shaped us, our ancestors and the societies in which we live.
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Progress, what's it good for? Critiquing progress in science and medicine at the end of series one
In this last episode of the first series of Body Politics, we reflect back on the history that we have come by over the past few months. One of the re...
"Safe enough to eat"? DDT and visions of global health after World War Two
Between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the beginning of the 1960s, the idea of 'global health' came to be one of the key ways in which po...
Fattened Calves and Educated Microbes: the political history of agriculture and anti-microbial resistance
Over the past seventy years, antibiotics have become one of the world's most prominent and powerful technologies for reducing human suffering through...
"Man-eaters": how soldiers coped with zoonotic disease during the First World War
How do people cope on a day-to-day basis with experiences of infectious diseases?
In this episode of Body Politics, we answer this quest...
Filthy animals: the origins of zoonosis in the third plague pandemic
In the past twelve months, we have become acutely aware of the ways in which diseases are the products of our relationship with the natural world, by...
"We've got the right to choose": history, politics and vaccine resistance
"Are you gonna get the vaccine?" In the past few months, this question has probably been asked millions of times in hundreds of languages, in househol...
WHO’s vaccine is it anyway? Empires, Politics, and the makings of global health.
N.B. This episode contains audio footage of deceased peoples from Australia's Aboriginal populations, particularly from 07mins 20 to 09mins 50. The re...
Yellow Fever in the Deep South: Slavery and Infectious Disease in Nineteenth-Century America
The third decade of the twenty-first century has started with the 'worst years ever', right? For billions of people around the planet, our 'new normal...