M&M (Museums and Medicine): The Old Operating Theatre Museum in London England with Monica Walker, PhD
While we've discussed numerous famous Victorian era surgeons, we haven't taken this deep of a dive into their facilities. This week we bring you a conversation with Monica Walker, PhD, all the way fr...
2 Feb 20231h 19min
The Hippocratic Oath - Solemn or Silly? With Special Guest, Dr. Brian Elliott
Doctors and the Hippocratic Oath just go together like Turner and Hooch. That analogy makes as little sense as it does to keep harping on the Hippocratic Oath as a rite of passage for graduating phys...
26 Jan 202350min
M&M (Museums and Medicine): The Science Museum of Minnesota & Their Questionable Medical Device Collection
This week we are joined by Laurie Fink, PhD, from the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) to discuss their anatomical collection as well as their super cool exhibit on quackery in medicine. Exhibits fr...
19 Jan 202359min
The Aorta - A Historically Infamous Blood Vessel
Let's mix one part anatomy lesson with one part historical overview of a very important blood vessel that has been a problem for numerous famous figures including Lucille Ball and Albert Einstein. We...
12 Jan 20231h 5min
M&M (Museums and Medicine): The International Surgical Science Museum in Chicago, Illinois
In addition to introducing us to our prior guest, James Wilke, the International Surgical Science Museum also joined us to talk about the work that their museum is doing. We'll talk about a variety o...
5 Jan 202351min
The Epic Surgical Quackery of "Dr." Goat Balls (aka "Dr." John Brinkley)
Thanks to a listener suggestion we have this week's masterpiece. In this week's episode we'll talk about "Dr." John Brinkley who's affection for transplanting goat balls would be impressive if he wer...
29 Dec 20221h 2min
Book Biopsy: Spare Parts - The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery (with Author Paul Craddock)
Our guest this week is author Paul Craddock, here to share his new book with us. Spare Parts is his first published work and is an excellent read into the history of one of the most complicated fron...
22 Dec 20221h 6min
Smallpox Part Two: Scourge in the Americas, Edward Jenner and Vaccination
Addendum: There were some errors in the original audio file caught by early listeners. These were corrected but early downloaders may have the old version. Apologies for that. This week we bring yo...
15 Dec 20221h 10min
