Join us in our conversation with science journalist and Johns Hopkins History of Medicine PhD student Jessica Leigh Hester about her recent book Sewer (Bloomsbury, 2022). We discuss the medical, social, and structural intricacies of sewers – and sewer stewardship – as well as Jessica’s PhD research on graverobbing and the display of human  remains. Thanks for listening! 

SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

Jessica Leigh Hester, Mundane Madness, Atlas Obscura (2018) 

Eric Grundhauser, “Most of the World’s Bread Clips Are Made by a Single Company: A brief history of the Kwik Lok Closure,” Atlas Obscura (2017) 

Alison Kinney, Hood (2016) 

Susan Bordo, TV (2021) 

COVIDPoops19 

Call for Papers for "Skeletons in the Academy" symposium

Robert Mcfarlane 

Pablo Gómez 

Sasha Turner 

Saidiya Hartman 

Making and Knowing Project, Pamela Smith 

Elizabeth O’Brien 

Alexandre White (see our episode with him here)