For the Medical Record

For the Medical Record

For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson and Research Associate Richard Del Rio. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today. - - - - - Logo: We would like to thank Karen Klinedinst (Art Director, Graphic Arts) and Courtney Weber (Graphic Designer), based in the Johns Hopkins Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, for creating this logo for our podcast. The background image is a drawing by Max Brödel (1870-1941), the first director of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine. It shows the interior of an ear, making it a perfect image to illustrate our auditory output. Music: From Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/coffee-break License code: QHALB6CTD8DSD3FP Production: Audio and overall production by Christy Slobogin

  1. Paul William Child (Bonus Episode) - on Jonathan Swift and humoral bodies

    JAN 27 · BONUS

    Paul William Child (Bonus Episode) - on Jonathan Swift and humoral bodies

    This is a bonus episode of For the Medical Record! Mia is flying solo to talk with Paul William Child, Professor of English at Sam Houston State University and alum of Johns Hopkins University's Online Master's Program in the History of Medicine. Child joins the pod to chat about his new book, The Dean Disordered: Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine, which grew out of his thesis project as well as a longstanding interest in Swift and his work. They discuss Swift's writings, how Swift understood his humoral body, and how the master's program helped shape his approach. Enjoy! Works Referenced: David M. Turner, Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment (Routledge, 2012) Tobin Siebers, Disability Theory (University of Michigan Press, 2008) ---For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.

    26 min
  2. Benjamin Breen (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on the James siblings and the quantification age

    11/10/2025

    Benjamin Breen (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on the James siblings and the quantification age

    This week, on For the Medical Record, Richard and Mia chat with Benjamin Breen, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Cruz. Breen talks about the paper he presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, "The James Siblings in the Age of Quantification." They discuss the James family and their philosophies about the relationship between modern technology and the body as well as how Breen might be looking at this project as a pre-history of artificial intelligence. Enjoy! For more of Breen's work, check out his books, The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) and Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central Publishing, 2024). --- For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.

    36 min
  3. Dominique Tobbell - history of nursing education

    10/27/2025

    Dominique Tobbell - history of nursing education

    Welcome back to For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia sit down with Dominique Tobbell, Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing and director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing History of Inquiry at the University of Virginia. Professor Tobbell recently spoke at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing about her recently published book, Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing. We talk about the history of nursing education and how the debate about whether nurses with doctoral degrees can call themselves "doctors." Related Resources: The Beyond Florence series in Nursing Clio. Hafeeza Anchrum, “Through the Eyes of Black Nurses: The Impact of the Nurse Training Act of 1964.” Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice (2025) 26(1): 56-64. Reynaldo Capucao, Jr., “Filipino Nurses and the US Navy at Hampton Roads, Virginia: The Importance of Place,” Nursing History Review 28 (2020): 158-169 Christine Peralta, “Nursing the Nation: The Intellectual Labour of Early Migrant Nurses in the US, 1935-1965,” in Margaret Walton-Roberts (ed.), Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022), 289-305. Andre Rosario, “The Sentosa Nurses: Historical Context for Policies to Protect Internationally-Educated Nurses from Human Trafficking.” Politics, Politics, & Nursing Practice (2025) 26(1): 47-55 Laurel Sanders, “Federal Field Nurses and Indigenous Births.” Medical Humanities (2024) 50: 235-245. Barbra Mann Wall, William Cessato, and Victoria Tucker, “The ‘Right Kinds of Nurses’: Centering LPNs in the Nursing Labor Force.” Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice (2025) 26(1): 24-39. And if you're interested in Prof. Tobbell's newest project, check out: Dominique Tobbell, “The Role of Communities in Nurse-Led Clinics, 1965-2000: Lessons from History.” Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice (2025) 26(1): 6-15. --- For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.

    38 min
  4. Randall Packard - global history of dengue fever

    09/29/2025

    Randall Packard - global history of dengue fever

    After a short hiatus for the summer, we're back with another episode of For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia talk with Randall Packard, professor emeritus in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University about his new book, Fevered Cities: A History of Dengue Epidemics. We talk about why dengue fever is such an interesting disease to track the history of and how changes to global health are going to impact dengue epidemics going forward.  Related Works: Randall Packard, The Making of a Tropical Disease, a Short History of Malaria (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Randall Packard, A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) Mari Webel, The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920(Ohio University Press, 2019) ---For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly.In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.

    44 min
  5. Bryan Doerries (Theater of War Productions) - performing histories of health disparities

    06/23/2025

    Bryan Doerries (Theater of War Productions) - performing histories of health disparities

    Welcome back to another episode of For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia talk with Bryan Doerries, artistic director of Theater of War Productions. They discuss Bryan's recent production of A Refutation, where actors dramatically read documents related to the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, which was performed at several locations around the DC/Baltimore area, including Johns Hopkins Hospital. For more information about A Refutation, you can visit Theater of War Productions' website. For a full recording of the performance at the Union Memorial United Methodist Church in West Baltimore, click here. --- For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.

    49 min
  6. Bonus Episode: Michael Seminara - on curating the historical collection at the Institute of the History of Medicine

    06/09/2025 · BONUS

    Bonus Episode: Michael Seminara - on curating the historical collection at the Institute of the History of Medicine

    It's summer, which means scholars are heading to the archives! Looking down the barrel at their own upcoming research trips, Richard and Mia talk with Michael Seminara, the curator for the historical collection at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. They chat with him about curating the collection, putting up exhibitions, and what he wished scholars knew about working with archivists. Recent Articles about the Collection: New to the Historical Collection Filming at the Institute Hearing History: The Robert J. Ruben Collection of Otolaryngological Instruments ---For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly.In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.

    19 min
  7. Mary Fissell - on abortion's long durée

    05/27/2025

    Mary Fissell - on abortion's long durée

    In this episode, Richard and Mia talk with Mary Fissell, the Inaugural J. Mario Molina Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, about her new book, "Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion." This is a great book and Mary is such a wealth of knowledge about this history.Related Works: Jennifer Wright, Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist Nicholas L. Syrett, The Trials of Madame Restell Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime "‘Drama of Life Before Birth’: Lennart Nilsson’s Landmark 1965 Photo Essay," Life Magazine. Kathleen Crowther, Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America Johanna Schoen, Abortion after Roe ---For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly.In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.

    38 min
  8. Alisha Rankin (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on surgical expertise in Renaissance manuscripts

    05/12/2025 · BONUS

    Alisha Rankin (Colloquium Mini Episode) - on surgical expertise in Renaissance manuscripts

    In this (not-so-mini) episode, Richard and Mia chat with Tufts University history professor, Alisha Rankin, about the paper she presented for the 29th Hideyo Ngouchi Lecture and as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series. Her paper, "The Skillful Surgeon: Surgical Expertise and Contested Authority in Early Modern Europe," was about these  manuscripts made by Renaissance-era surgeons that illustrated surgical procedures. This is a bit of a longer mini episode -- we had so much fun chatting we simply could not cut it down!  The Wellcome Collection has digital scans of some of manuscripts discussed: Caspar Stromayr Georg BartischThe Franciscan copy of Bartisch's manuscript is here. The Wellcome Collection also has a short blog post on Bartisch's manuscripts. Other works mentions: Stephanie Leitch, Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation: Training the Literate Eye Susanna Berger, "Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia and His Theory of Painting and Drawing" --- For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.

    32 min
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For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson and Research Associate Richard Del Rio. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today. - - - - - Logo: We would like to thank Karen Klinedinst (Art Director, Graphic Arts) and Courtney Weber (Graphic Designer), based in the Johns Hopkins Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, for creating this logo for our podcast. The background image is a drawing by Max Brödel (1870-1941), the first director of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine. It shows the interior of an ear, making it a perfect image to illustrate our auditory output. Music: From Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/coffee-break License code: QHALB6CTD8DSD3FP Production: Audio and overall production by Christy Slobogin

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    For the Medical Record
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    2022 - 2026
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