Body Politics: where history, medicine and society collide
Medicine has always been about more than just science; it has also been an arena where politics, culture and society collide. Tune in every other Thursday to Body Politics and explore how those collisions have shaped us, our ancestors and the societies in which we live.
Progress, what's it good for? Critiquing progress in science and medicine at the end of series one
"Safe enough to eat"? DDT and visions of global health after World War Two
Fattened Calves and Educated Microbes: the political history of agriculture and anti-microbial resistance
"Man-eaters": how soldiers coped with zoonotic disease during the First World War
Filthy animals: the origins of zoonosis in the third plague pandemic
"We've got the right to choose": history, politics and vaccine resistance
WHO’s vaccine is it anyway? Empires, Politics, and the makings of global health.