Oxford Brookes Centre for Health, Medicine and Society Podcasts

Oxford Brookes Centre for Health, Medicine and Society Podcasts

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Podcasts about the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society. Can the history of epidemics or the history of body fat help us better understand our susceptibility to illnesses like swine flu or provide a clue to the modern day rise of obesity?

Recent Episodes

  • History of Medicine #25: Race – a history of a bad idea

    7 years ago
  • History of Medicine #24: Suitable for Parenthood: The Eugenics of Reproductive Health in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

    12 years ago
  • History of Medicine #23: Spinsters and Lesbians as Spiritual Mothers of the British Race

    12 years ago
  • History of Medicine #22: Send in the Clones? Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane)’s Musing on Reproduction, Breeding, Feminism, Socialism and Eugenics from the 1920s to the 1970s

    12 years ago
  • History of Medicine #21: Women, the Family and Eugenics in Nazi Germany

    12 years ago
  • History of Medicine #20: Eugenics and Maternalism during the Century of Woman: Trends in Eastern Europe

    12 years ago
  • History of Medicine #19: Eugeni-fascist Vitalism, Racial Prepotency, and Maternal Health in Interwar Italy

    12 years ago
  • History of Medicine #18: Making experts in the periphery: Toxicology in nineteenth-century Spain

    13 years ago
  • History of Medicine #17: Place Identity and Healthy Cities

    13 years ago
  • History of Medicine #16: A History of Morphological Evolution: From Darwin to Lewis and beyond

    13 years ago