Special Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical Bondage
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Explore "medical history" with insightful episodes like "Special Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical Bondage", "The Invention of Surgical Gloves", "Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Feminist Physician", "SYSK Selects: Your limb is torn off - now what?" and "The Surprising Origin Of Some Timely Advice: Wash Your Hands" from podcasts like ""This Podcast Will Kill You", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind", "Stuff You Should Know", "Stuff You Should Know" and "Short Wave"" and more!
In this invention-themed episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the origin of surgical gloves, the differing concepts for their composition and the struggle to get surgeons to wear them.
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Becoming the first licensed woman physician in America was tough, convincing male surgeons to wash their hands between patients was even tougher. Today Josh and Chuck pay tribute to a genuine pioneer in medicine and society.
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Were you to be the unfortunate victim of a limb removal of any sort, you could take hope. Here in the 21st century, doctors have gotten pretty handy at reattaching arms and legs, replacing thumbs with toes, rebuilding breasts, all to great success thanks to microsurgery techniques.
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In Episode 91, Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis, to discuss the baby-killing horror of homeopathy.
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Lobotomies -- brain surgeries to relieve psychiatric problems -- are rarely performed today, but they were once fairly common. Tune in to learn more about the controversial history and practice of lobotomies.
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When the birth control pill hit the market in 1960 it landed like a social bomb. Almost overnight, women gained the ability to separate sex from pregnancy and everything from feminism to patients’ rights centered on it.
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There was a brief period in the US, UK and Ireland when a dead body could fetch a pretty penny for a person willing to dig it up and sell it to surgeons for dissection. It turns out that there was no shortage of ghoulish types willing to do just that.
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We tend to think of medicine as a science, but for most of human history it has been scientific-ish at best. In the first episode of a three-part series, we look at the grotesque mistakes produced by centuries of trial-and-error, and ask whether the new era of evidence-based medicine is the solution.
J. Marion Sims is remembered as the father of modern gynecology. Forgotten are the mothers—the enslaved women whose bodies were sacrificed for the advancement of his research.
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