New Books in Medicine
Hosted by Emily Dufton · Marshall Poe
4.5from 20 ratings
- 1,136
- Episodes
- 247
- Transcribed
- 20
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2008
- First episode
About New Books in Medicine
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine
- Publisher
- Marshall Poe
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Aug 2008
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
247 of 1,136 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Ethics of Precision Medicine and Burned Agency with Paul Scherz and Travis Pickell
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Survival with Sarah Brothers (U California Press, 2026)
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's America with Paul Kelton (Oxford UP, 2026)
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The Ethics of Precision Medicine and Burned Agency with Paul Scherz and Travis Pickell
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And really, that kind of came to the fore, thinking about how we struggle to die well in our culture. A lot of the things that drive some of the problems that we all can recognize, but also, you know, don't really know what to do with. Sometimes these things feel like wicked problems that everything you try to change actually makes them worse. And so, um, try to think about that sort of at the meta level and the macro level, but also on the personal individual level, uh, got me thinking about primarily about choices, uh, decisions, um, and the assumptions that we have that go into those decisions about, um, what it means to have or preserve dignity, what it means to, uh, exercise autonomy, um, how, um, how our assumptions about our agency being active and in control are ultimately shown to be somehow problematic when it comes to the end of life, because the end of life serves as a symbol of your ultimate lack of control in many ways. […]
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- Paul Scherz
- Travis Pickell
- Sarah Brothers
- Paul Kelton
- Anna Krome-Lukens
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- 4.8 / 5
- 18 ratings
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- 2.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
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