The Clinic & The Person Podcast
1) Holes and Lobotomies: Seeing and Feeling Migraine
We examine excerpts from Siri Hustvedt’s novel, The Blindfold, and from Joan Didion’s essay, In Bed, for the perspectives they offer on what people experience when migraines strike them. We discuss ho...Show More
2) Cancer as a Narrator in Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies with Dr. Laurel Lyckholm
Send us a text Note: The story and the images in the book we cover in this episode could bring back memories of unhappy and traumatic events for some people who have experienced cancer in some way. T...Show More
3) Psychedelics for Everyone? Michael Pollan’s Immersive Journalistic Investigation
Send us a text Michael Pollan, a journalist long known for his work in food and nutrition, and as the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, shifted his attention to psychedelics when they were beginning t...Show More
4) I’m Sick, Therefore I Am: Illness as Normality in Nervous System with Author Lina Meruane
Send us a text Susan Sontag has said, “Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the s...Show More
5) Lights, Camera, Deny: Managed Care at the Movies
Send us a text Four movies released between 1997 and 2002 picked up on the anger and resentment building among people encountering increasingly aggressive managed health care tactics aiming at reducin...Show More
6) Consumptive Heroines: Opera and TB with Drs Linda and Michael Hutcheon
Send us a text The trajectories of tuberculosis (TB) and opera met in the mid-nineteenth century most notably with the production of La Traviata in 1853, and then La Bohème near the century’s end. Wit...Show More
7) Painting an Ideal: Luke Fildes’ The Doctor with Hannah Darvin
Send us a textThe renowned English social realist and portrait painter, Luke Fildes (rhymes with “childs”), created The Doctor in 1891 after Henry Tate commissioned a painting from him for his new mus...Show More
8) “We Give Up Living, Just to Keep Alive”: Three Essayists on Health Care Decisions
Send us a textThe scope and intensity of health care products and services available today make it necessary for us to have thoughts about how much of our way of life we would be willing to give up fo...Show More
“We Give Up Living, Just to Keep Alive”: Three Essayists on Health Care Decisions
52:59 | Nov 14th, 2024
9) Heal Me: Childhood Trauma in The Who’s Tommy with Dr. Anthony Tobia
Send us a textWhen the British band, The Who, released their double album, Tommy, in 1969, many of the songs in it became instant classics and served as anthems for the Baby Boomer generation ever sin...Show More
10) Illness as Exile in the Greek Tragedy Philoctetes with Paul Ranelli
Send us a textGreek tragedies often concern identifiable and universal problems humans have confronted over the millennia. Among these problems are those illness and suffering create. In this episode ...Show More