Humankind on Public Radio

By David Freudberg

Weekly podcast from public radio’s award-winning program Humankind... more

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The podcast currently has 618 episodes available.

Humankind on Public Radio episodes:

December 22, 2022 Kindred Spirits: Lost Christianity with Jacob Needleman
The author of “Lost Christianity,” Prof. Jacob Needleman reports on his conversations with contemporary seekers who seem to have re-discovered a living dimension of God as taught by Jesus. Includes readings from the “Desert Fathers.”
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30min
December 20, 2022 Hospice Doc Joel Bauman
We dive into a rich dialogue with Joel Bauman, a remarkably gifted physician, trained in care for the elderly. He describes the special needs of palliative care for hospice patients, who have shifted from seeking a cure (which may no longer be realistic) to relief of symptoms and distress, as life draws to a close.
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30min
December 15, 2022 Reclaiming the Holidays
The social and economic pressure to approach the December holidays as a breathless buying spree is enormous. But so is the environmental toll from the millions and millions of well-intentioned gifts that are manufactured, used and thrown away. This program explores other ways of showing our affection to the people we care about in the […]
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30min
December 08, 2022 Practicing Prevention with Ralph Snyderman
In this episode, we hear from physician Ralph Snyderman, MD, a proponent of preventive medicine, who believes that our health care system should place greater emphasis on preventive practices (such as healthy diet and stress management), because it is more humane to avoid disease than to cope with it, and because it is a far cheaper mode of health care.
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30min
December 05, 2022 Listeners, Pt2
There’s a kind of mystery in sitting calmly, patiently, attentively and tuning into someone else’s personal story – their experience and life journey. In this special program, we hear the reflective insights of people who listen for a living: physicians, counselors and clergy.
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29min
December 01, 2022 Healing the Wounds of War with Steven Stratford
Vietnam veteran Steven Stratford tells the story of his post-traumatic descent into addiction and how, finally in jail, he realized he would have to “replace bad memories with good memories” by returning to Vietnam to help civilians.
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30min
November 24, 2022 New Jersey Food Bank
We hear the moving story of Kathleen DiChiara, suburban housewife who became very concerned about human hunger in the 1970s. This motivated her to start collecting food at church, and eventually other sites, and then to organize distribution to people in the nearby inner city.
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30min
November 21, 2022 Listeners, Pt1
There’s a kind of mystery in sitting calmly, patiently, attentively and tuning into someone else’s personal story – their experience and life journey. In this documentary, we hear the insights of people who, in a sense, listen for a living: physicians, counselors, clergy and others. What does it mean to set aside one’s own agenda […]
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28min
November 07, 2022 What the Research Shows
Health care chaplaincy has increasingly been a subject of evidence-based research. In this episode of the podcast, we review findings of some recent studies by the American Cancer Society, the Mayo Clinic, Pew and other sources. Two leading researchers offer their perspectives.
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34min
November 03, 2022 Barely Getting By Pt2
In a country as wealthy as the United States, “working poor” should be a contradiction in terms. But tens of millions of Americans fall into that category — affecting a growing population of children.
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30min

FAQs about Humankind on Public Radio:

How many episodes does Humankind on Public Radio have?

The podcast currently has 618 episodes available.

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