Medical Humanities Podcast

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Medical Humanities Podcast episodes

February 24, 2021 Health Justice with Dr. Oni Blackstock
In this podcast, Brandy Schillace, Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief, interviews Dr. Oni Blackstock, physician and Director of Health Justice
Dr. Blackstock speaks about the influence of her mother, the fight against health inequality, and her own struggles as a Black woman physician for social justice.
Read the related blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/02/24/the-power-of-equity-interview-with-oni-blackstock/
19 min
January 22, 2021 What becomes of us: health disparity in pandemic
Dr. Josh Mugele, a disaster and emergency medicine physician, speaks about health disparity during crises like the current COVID pandemic.
Read the blog post containing the transcript of this podcast: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/02/04/what-becomes-of-us-health-disparity-in-pandemic/
22 min
January 05, 2021 Hearing Happiness: Jaipreet Virdi on deafness, accessibility, and her latest book
Jaipreet Virdi’s latest book, Hearing Happiness raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Read the blog post:
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/01/05/hearing-happiness-jaipreet-virdi-on-deafness-accessibility-and-her-latest-book/
23 min
December 05, 2020 Heart in Medicine, History and Culture
Therese Feiler, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, describes the interdisciplinary Medical Humanities special issue, bringing together cardiac surgeons, cultural historians and theologians on matters of the heart (https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/12/10/podcast-heart-in-medicine-history-and-culture).
Please read:
- the editorial: https://mh.bmj.com/content/46/4/350
- the full issue: https://mh.bmj.com/content/46/4
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19 min
November 18, 2020 Accessibility, Creation, Community: an interview with Cheryl Green
What would it mean if, instead of being “add-ons,” accessibility tools like captions and transcripts were built into a project from the ground up? What if instead of thinking about accessibility as “mere” additions only, we realized their incredible creative power?
Read the related blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/11/19/accessibility-creation-community-an-interview-with-cheryl-green/
28 min
October 26, 2020 Finding ways forward for LGBTQ+ health access
In today’s podcast, Dr. Henry Ng, MD MPH, Cleveland Clinic, speaks with Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities, Brandy Schillace, about issues of LGBTQ+ and health accessibility. Already a difficult prospect, access to care for this population has become increasingly precarious during the COVID epidemic.
Read the blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/10/27/accessing-the-future-ways-forward-for-lgbtq-health-access/
Please subscribe to the Medical Humanities podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your mobile device and computer. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Medical Humanities Podcast iTunes page - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/medical-humanities-podcast/id961667204
28 min
September 10, 2020 The Dignity of Help: Sara Hendron’s What a Body Can Do
Sarah Hendron’s book, What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, looks at design and disability at all scales: prosthetics, furniture, architecture, urban planning, and more, to examine critically the definition of the good life.
Read the related blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/09/25/the-dignity-of-help-sara-hendrens-what-a-body-can-do/
22 min
September 10, 2020 The Dignity of Help: Sara Hendren’s What a Body Can Do
Sarah Hendren’s book, What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, looks at design and disability at all scales: prosthetics, furniture, architecture, urban planning, and more, to examine critically the definition of the good life.
Read the related blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/09/25/the-dignity-of-help-sara-hendrens-what-a-body-can-do/
22 min
August 21, 2020 Accessibility isn’t a new coat of paint: Chris Higgins on his film ACCESS
How do we make something really and truly accessible? Chris Higgins talks about what led to his 2019 short film Access, and the fact that accessibility isn’t about making a different product for those with disabilities; it’s about making the product with all people in mind.
To find out more about the film:
https://accessmovie.org/
18 min
July 01, 2020 Where race, disparity, and pandemic collide: COVID-19 USA
Dr. Oni Blackstock joins us to speak about social justice, Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights and the way the COVID-19 crisis has unequally affected marginalized communities. Dr. Blackstock is Assistant Commissioner for the NYC Health Department's Bureau of HIV.
Link to the blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/07/03/where-race-disparity-and-pandemic-collide-covid-19-usa
24 min

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The Medical Humanities Podcast explores the stories, ethics, and experiences that connect clinical medicine to the arts. From the history of medicine to bioethics and gender, hosts Dr. Sabina Dosani (Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities) and paediatrician Dr. Sarah Ahmed speak with writers, artists, and scholars redefining our understanding of health. Join us as we pull at the threads that tie us together and investigate the ones that unravel.