Tues 2.02.10| Radiation, Cancer, and Militarism
In the mid-20th century, the US government and private companies joined together to develop medical applications from the byproducts of the nuclear industry. Ellen Leopold talks about the rise of...
View ArticleTues 1.25.11| Cancerous Rhetorics?
Clichés about hope and individual responsibility pervade popular-culture narratives about cancer in the US. Lochlann Jain critiques what she calls "the cultural management of cancer terror" and...
View ArticleMon 11.26.12| Radiation, Cancer, and the Cold War
In the mid-20th century, the US government and private companies joined together to develop medical applications from the byproducts of the nuclear industry. Ellen Leopold talks about the rise of...
View ArticleMon 10.28.13 | When Doctors Err
Medical error is, by some estimates, the third leading cause of death in the US. So does the medical malpractice system work to compensate patients (or their heirs)? According to Lochlann Jain, that...
View ArticleMon 9.08.14 | When Doctors Err
Medical error is, by some estimates, the third leading cause of death in the US. So does the medical malpractice system work to compensate patients (or their heirs)? According to Lochlann Jain, that...
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