The History of Medicine

This week, Freud visits the United States... and very little changes, until the rise of the Nazis and World War II. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, Freud goes on a war path, expelling all who disagree with him. No one is safe, even the founding members of the Wednesday Psychological Society. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!

Thanks for waiting everyone. This week, we continue the saga of Sigmund Freud, and talk about how he first began to rise to prominence. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here! 

Unfortunately, there’s not going to be an episode this week on account of me moving into a new house, and having a bunch of work suddenly appear over the weekend. Thanks for listening, and stay tuned; we'll be back to normal episodes next week. 

This week, we start talking about Sigmund Freud, his earliest exploits in medicine, and then the basics of his psychoanalytic theory. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about the alienists, and their reforms to asylums of the mid 1800s. Phillipe Pinel is to lay the groundwork, but still no major progress is made in terms of treatment of psychological disease. A Painting of Pinel Releasing PatientsCheck out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about the biological psychiatry movement of the mid to late 1800s. Its most important discovery: Alzheimer's disease. And that's about it. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!

We're back, with season 4, about mental illness. We'll start this week in the 1770s, with Franz Mesmer, who "discovered" animal magnetism, and accidentally actually discovered hypnosis. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here! 

This week we'll wrap up the season with a discussion about the future of public health. We talk about recent trends and how things will probably go, regarding preventative and curative efforts. Next season: Mental illness.Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we re-visit international public health efforts, with the formation of the World Health Organization in 1948. We talk about some of their greatest achievements and responsibilities, and some of the recent controversies too. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!