The Clinic & The Person
J. Russell Teagarden & Daniel Albrant
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The Clinic & The Person is a podcast bringing knowledge and perspectives from the humanities to certain aspects of biomedicine. “The Clinic” represents all that biomedicine brings to bear on diseases and treatments, and “The Person” represents all that people go through with health problems. Our episodes draw from works in the humanities—any genre—directly related to how people are affected by specific clinical events such as migraine headaches, epileptic seizures, and dementia, and by specific health care situations such as restricted access to care and gut-wrenching, life and death choices. We analyze and interpret featured works and provide thoughts on their applications in patient care; health professions education; clinical and population research; health care policy; and social and cultural trends and preoccupations. Often joining us are the creators of works we feature or experts on the topics we select.
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When God Closes a Podcast...
Send a textWe end the podcast after thirty episodes over three years. In this brief, last episode, we announce the end of this series, explain our reasons for ending it now, summarize what we covered…
Cancer as a Narrator in Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies with Dr. Laurel Lyckholm
Send a textNote: 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. This…
Psychedelics for Everyone? Michael Pollan’s Immersive Journalistic Investigation
Send a textMichael 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 to…
I’m Sick, Therefore I Am: Illness as Normality in Nervous System with Author Lina Meruane
Send a textSusan 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…
Lights, Camera, Deny: Managed Care at the Movies
Send a textFour movies released between 1997 and 2002 picked up on the anger and resentment building among people encountering increasingly aggressive managed health care tactics aimed at reducing…
Consumptive Heroines: Opera and TB with Drs Linda and Michael Hutcheon
Send a textThe 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. With…
Painting an Ideal: Luke Fildes’ The Doctor with Hannah Darvin
Send 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…
“We Give Up Living, Just to Keep Alive”: Three Essayists on Health Care Decisions
Send 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 for…
Heal Me: Childhood Trauma in The Who’s Tommy with Dr. Anthony Tobia
Send 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…
Illness as Exile in the Greek Tragedy Philoctetes with Paul Ranelli
Send 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 we…
“No Escape from Reality:” Thomas Kuhn and the Reliability of Medical Knowledge
Send a text“Should we worry about the reliability of medical knowledge?” asks philosopher John Huss (University of Akron). We consider this question from the perspective of Thomas Kuhn’s classic,…
“I’m Filled with Desire”: Eros & Illness with David B. Morris
Send a textPeople can have certain desires stemming from their illnesses, for the arts, health, companionship, serenity, and meaning among other possibilities. The scholar, writer, and teacher David…
Andrew Leland’s Country of the Blind: It’s the Same World
Send a textAndrew Leland is a major figure as a writer, editor, producer, teacher, and podcaster across the mainstream American cultural landscape. He has contributed to the New York Times Magazine,…
What Desire Will Shape a World We’re Left?: Poet Micheal O’Siadhail on Covid
Send a textFour years after the Covid pandemic began, as daily life has returned in large measure to its pre-pandemic shape, assessments and reflections about how the pandemic was able to wreak such…
AIDS in the Comics: The Graphic Memoir Taking Turns with MK Czerwiec
Send a textWe return to the subject of how terrible the HIV/AIDS crisis was at its peak. The first time (Episode 9) we drew from a memoir, documentary film, and a literary novel. This time we feature…
Life Imitates Art: Covid-19 Edition
Send a textHuman behaviors in many segments of society during the Covid-19 pandemic could have been predicted based on literary texts from the past and right up to the moment the pandemic began. In…
Painting with Empathy: The Expressionist Art of Edvard Munch with Curator Øystein Ustvedt
Send a textWhile in Oslo, Norway visiting family, Russell Teagarden went to the National Museum (Nasjonalmuseet) to speak with Øystein Ustvedt, who is a curator and noted expert on the art of Edvard…
Reconciliation and Denial: Two Elements of Family Dementia Stories
Send a textThe millions of families dealing with Alzheimer’s disease produce millions of their own stories. We focus on two particular elements that can be part of a family’s story about dementia.…
He Wants to Itch at It: A Novel, Play, and Movie Imagining Dementia
Send a textWhat could it be like to have dementia? We can’t know. But the arts can imagine what people with dementia could be going through, and many works have been produced for that purpose. We…
When Neurons Get Tied Up in Knots: Human Fallibility and Folly in Asylum Psychiatry
Send a textWe look to three sources, a movie (The Mountain), a documentary film (The Lobotomist), and a nonfiction book (Desperate Remedies), for perspectives on human fallibility and folly in…
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The Clinic & The Person has published 32 episodes since September 2022, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Medicine.
The Clinic & The Person is currently moderate with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 50m.
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