Humans and Monsters: An Interview with Surekha Davies

The fears about genetic engineering were stoked when experiments took off in the 1970s. From lab leaks to disease epidemics to the ability to make "Frankenstein creations," many of those fears are still with us today. We talk to author Surekha Davies about her latest book, why she thinks of monsters as category breakers and why blurring boundaries can be so terrifying for us, but maybe doesn't have to be. Credits Host: Alexis Pedrick Executive Producer: Mariel Carr Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez Associate Producer: Sarah Kaplan Audio Engineer: Samia Bouzid Music by Blue Dot Sessions Resource List Davies, Surekha. Humans: A Monstrous History . University of California Press: 2025.

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Humans and Monsters: An Interview with Surekha Davies is an episode from Distillations: Science + Culture + History by Science History Institute.

This episode is 31:38 long.

This episode was published on Sep 9, 2025.

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