Author Wendy Patrice Williams discusses her new book, Autobiography of a Sea Creature: Surviving the Trauma of Infant Surgery, with podcaster Dr. Steve Beitler, of the University of California, San Francisco. The book is published by UC Health Humanities Press.

Wendy Patrice Williams on Surviving the Trauma of Infant Surgery

Dr. Brian Dolan, Director of UC Medical Humanities Press and Professor of Social Medicine at UCSF, interviews Dr. Silvia Camporesi, professor of bioethics and society at King's College, London, about her book: From Bench to Bedside, to Track and Field: The Context of Enhancement and its Ethical Relevance.

UCMH Press interviews Dr. Silvia Camporesi on her book about doping in sports and editing embryos

Dr. Brian Dolan interviews Dr. Marilyn McEntyre, author of Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out, about the benefits of teaching poetry in medical school and how patients who write poetry find ways of coping with difficult circumstances. 

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July 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Being a presidential election year in America, the government's role in healthcare provision is again in debate, and familiar warnings about national health insurance and "socialism" are being waged. In this podcast, Dr. Brian Dolan takes a look at the history of the rhetoric about healthcare and socialism and seeks to illustrate how rhetoric influences reality. 

Medicare, Socialism, and the Yoke of European Dictatorship

Dr. Brian Dolan interviews Dr. David Watts, Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF and author/editor of two books with UCMHP: The Healing Art of Writing (2011) and Tell me Again: Poetry and Prose from the Healing Art of Writing (2014). A poet, novelist, documentary filmmaker, as well as gastroenterologist, Dr. Watts talks about the interactions between art and science in the healing arts. 

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Author Josephine Ensign discusses her new book Soul Stories: Voices from the Margins (UC Medical Humanities Press), winner of the silver medal for creative works by the American Journal of Nursing.

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