Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2511: Nostrums and Quackery
Posted on · Episode: 2511 An Early 20th-century crackdown on medical quacks. Today, quack medicine.
Tag: medicine
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1916: Anesthesia in 1848
Posted on · Episode: 1916 An inside look at the use of anesthesia in 1848. Today, anesthesia in 1848.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1014: War on Disease
Posted on · Episode: 1014 Making war on disease: a tricky business. Today, total war proves to be a dangerous business.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1917: Etienne Jules Marey
Posted on · Episode: 1917 In which Etienne Jules Marey tries to copy the animals. Today, we try to build machines that work like animals.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1863: Alexis Carrel
Posted on · Episode: 1863 Alexis Carrel, the murky pioneer of organ transplants. Today, a president killed, and a Nobel Prize given.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1769: Niels Finsen
Posted on · Episode: 1769 Niels Finsen: A Nobel Prize for Photo Therapy. Today, light and healing.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2934: Molecules of Life
Posted on · Episode: 2934 Reading the Molecules of Life. Today, we read the molecules of life.
Houston Matters
Full Show: The Doctor-Patient Relationship, And How The Disabled Are Depicted In Media (Sept. 24, 2019)
Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: Improving doctor-patient relationships, how people with disabilities are represented in film and TV, and Banned Books Week.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1743: The First Cut
Posted on · Episode: 1743 In which all surgery means making the first-ever incision into a human body. Today, we cut into a human body.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2619: Space Medicine
Posted on · Episode: 2619 Practicing Medicine Off the Planet; A New Physiology. Today, Astronaut Michael Barratt talks about medicine in space.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1730: Aging Brain
Posted on · Episode: 1730 Our aging brains, some surprising compensations. Today, our brains age.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1712: Nightingale’s Graph
Posted on · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1705: A 3000-Year-Old Toe
Posted on · Episode: 1705 A 3000-year-old woman with an artificial toe. Today, a big toe made of wood.
Houston Matters
Should Texas Have Stricter Blood Alcohol Laws?
Posted on · We discuss the pros and cons of imposing more stringent standards on impaired driving.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1644: Hufeland on Infants
Posted on · Episode: 1644 An 18th-century doctor helps great-grandmother raise grandpa. Today, we raise a nineteenth-century child.