Exploring 'Health Equity Tourism'
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a new public...
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Exploring 'Health Equity Tourism'
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a new public...
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Of all wealthy countries, the United States is the most dangerous place to have a baby. Our...
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Certain medical instruments have built-in methods of correcting for race. They’re based on the...
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When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900 the public health department poured all of...
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In 2005 the FDA approved a pill to treat high blood preassure only in African Americans. This...
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The word “Tuskegee” has come to symbolize the Black community’s mistrust of the medical...
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In 1991, as crews broke ground on a new federal office building in lower Manhattan, they...
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In 2019, Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, a community organizer and journalist, learned that the Penn Museum...
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In the 1990s a liberal population geneticist launched the Human Genome Diversity Project. The...
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In the 1970s Barry Mehler started tracking race scientists and he noticed something funny: they...
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In 1793 a yellow fever epidemic almost destroyed Philadelphia. The young city was saved by two...
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In 2018 ancient DNA researchers revealed their analysis of a 10,000 year old skeleton called...
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It might seem as though the way we think about race now is how we’ve always thought about it—but...
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New Season Trailer! Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race
Our new season, Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, drops on February 7th.
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What comes to mind when you think of a chemistry lab? Maybe it’s smoke billowing out of...
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Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Disappearing Spoon, a podcast collaboration between the Science History Institute and New...
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The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome
In this episode of The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean talks about Alessandro Moreschi, the...
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Disappearing Spoon: The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association
In this episode of The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean talks about the strange origin story of the...
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In this episode of The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean talks about Hermann Muller, a geneticist who...
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Disappearing Spoon: The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder
On this episode of The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean talks about a murder mystery that rocked...
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S1E67: Oplossing tegen tinnitus
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Arroz transgénico que salva vidas
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Forever chemicals in water
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Moon and Spica
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