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For the Medical Record

For the Medical Record

For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University"s Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson and Research Associate Richard Del Rio. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care

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S2 Ep10: Benjamin Breen (Colloquium Mini Episode) -...

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2025/11/10

This week, on For the Medical Record, Richard and Mia chat with Benjamin Breen, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Cruz. Breen talks about the paper he presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, "The James Siblings in the Age of Quantification." They discuss the James family and their philosophies about the relationship between modern technology and the body as well as how Breen might be

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S2 Ep9: Dominique Tobbell - history of nursing education

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2025/10/27

Welcome back to For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia sit down with Dominique Tobbell, Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing and director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing History of Inquiry at the University of Virginia. Professor Tobbell recently spoke at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing about her recently published book, Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing. We talk about the history of nursing education and

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S2 Ep8: Randall Packard - global history of dengue fever

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2025/09/29

After a short hiatus for the summer, we're back with another episode of For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia talk with Randall Packard, professor emeritus in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University about his new book, Fevered Cities: A History of Dengue Epidemics. We talk about why dengue fever is such an interesting disease to track the history of and how changes to global health are going to impact dengue epidemics going forward. Related Works: Randall Packard, The

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S2 Ep7: Bryan Doerries (Theater of War Productions) -...

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2025/06/23

Welcome back to another episode of For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia talk with Bryan Doerries, artistic director of Theater of War Productions. They discuss Bryan's recent production of A Refutation, where actors dramatically read documents related to the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, which was performed at several locations around the DC/Baltimore area, including Johns Hopkins Hospital.For more information about A Refutation, you can visit Theater of War

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S2 Ep6: Bonus Episode: Michael Seminara - on curating...

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2025/06/09

It's summer, which means scholars are heading to the archives! Looking down the barrel at their own upcoming research trips, Richard and Mia talk with Michael Seminara, the curator for the historical collection at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. They chat with him about curating the collection, putting up exhibitions, and what he wished scholars knew about working with archivists. Recent Articles about the Collection: New to the Historical Collection Filming at the

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37:58

S2 Ep5: Mary Fissell - on abortion's long durée

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2025/05/27

In this episode, Richard and Mia talk with Mary Fissell, the Inaugural J. Mario Molina Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, about her new book, "Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion." This is a great book and Mary is such a wealth of knowledge about this history.Related Works: Jennifer Wright, Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist Nicholas L. Syrett, The

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S2 Ep4: Alisha Rankin (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on...

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2025/05/12

In this (not-so-mini) episode, Richard and Mia chat with Tufts University history professor, Alisha Rankin, about the paper she presented for the 29th Hideyo Ngouchi Lecture and as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series. Her paper was about these manuscripts made by Renaissance-era surgeons that illustrated surgical procedures. This is a bit of a longer mini episode -- we had so much fun chatting we simply could not cut it

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36:26

S2 Ep3: Lan Li - on body maps, meridians, and...

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2025/04/28

In this episode, Richard and Mia are joined by Lan Li, professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Online Program in the History of Medicine, to talk about her new book, Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine. Works referenced in the episode: Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity Lorraine Daston and Peter L. Galison, Objectivity Shigehisa Kuriyama, The

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40:46

S2 Ep2: Julia Cummiskey - on virus research in Uganda

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2025/04/14

In this episode, Richard and Mia talk to Julia Cummiskey, a professor of the history of medicine right here at Johns Hopkins University. She chats with us about her new book, Virus Research in 20th-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global.For more about the Uganda Virus Research Institute, visit https://www.uvri.go.ug/ For more about the Rakai Health Sciences Program, visit https://www.rhsp.org/ A note from Julia: "I wish I had mentioned how important their work is and how much it means when they

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S2 Ep1: Bharat Venkat (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on...

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2025/03/31

In this mini episode, Richard and Mia talk to Bharat Venkat, a professor of anthropology at UCLA, about the research he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series and his upcoming book project, "Swelter: A History of Our Bodies in a Warming World." Related links for Bharat's work: UCLA Heat Lab "Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in

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S2: "For the Medical Record" Season 2 Trailer

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2025/03/24

We are SO back!! After a brief hiatus, For the Medical Record is back with new hosts, Richard Del Rio and Mia Levenson. For the Medical Record is a Podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associated Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. First episode drops on March 31 and new episodes will be out every two weeks. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within

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12: Nicole Labruto - on undergraduate education & on...

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2023/12/29

Join us in our conversation with Nicole Labruto, anthropologist and director of the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities undergraduate major here at Johns Hopkins. In this episode, we discuss both Dr. Labruto’s own anthropological research – on sugar cane, science, the environment, and society – as well as the importance of offering an interdisciplinary education in the medical humanities and science, technology, and society to undergraduate students. In addition to speaking about her fascinating

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Matthew Klingle (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on...

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2023/12/15

In this mini episode, we speak with Matthew Klingle about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, titled "'Wear and Tear': An Ecology of Diabetes, Stress, and Discrimination."

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11: Alexander Parry and Wendy Shields - on rethinking...

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2023/11/30

Join us in our conversation with Wendy Shields, Senior Scientist at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Alexander Parry, PhD candidate in History of Medicine. These two are part of a wider research network and team spearheading the field of injury studies, in part represented by a hybrid, internationally focused conference in March 2024 called “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society.” Join us in our discussions about why studying injuries is important,

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Aishah Scott (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on...

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2023/11/15

In this mini episode, we talk to Aishah Scott about the research that she presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, titled "Trickledown Respectability Politics and HIV/AIDS in Black America."

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10: Lauren Small - on narrative medicine

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2023/10/31

Join us in our conversation with Lauren Small, writer, novelist, and academic here at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In this episode, we discuss the roles, purposes, and benefits of narrative medicine, particularly in relation to the AfterWards program that Lauren runs. Our discussion of Lauren’s own historical fiction works takes us from an influenza-stricken Baltimore of the early twentieth century, to a massacre in nineteenth-century Colorado, to stories about the First Crusade in the eleventh

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Pablo Gómez (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on...

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2023/10/16

In this mini episode, we talk to Pablo F. Gómez about the research that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, titled "Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic."

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9: Kamna Balhara and Nathan Irvin - on the health...

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2023/09/29

Join us in our conversation with Nathan Irvin and Kamna Balhara, both physicians and professors in the Emergency Medicine Department here at Johns Hopkins. In this episode, we hear about the phenomenal work that these two are doing spearheading Health Humanities at Hopkins Emergency Medicine (H3EM). In particular, we discuss why humanities are vital for physicians working at the “front door of the hospital” (the emergency room), which exists at the nexus of the hospital and the community, and the

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Joseph Vignone (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on...

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2023/09/18

In this mini episode, we talk to Joseph Leonardo Vignone about the research that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, titled "Remembering Bodies: A Medieval Islamic History of Human Enhancement."

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15:36

Graham Mooney (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on alcohol...

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2023/08/16

In this mini episode, we speak to Graham Mooney about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “How Public Health Makes 'Behavior': Alcohol Programs in Post World War II Baltimore.”

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