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Explore the rich history of medicine, from the diseases that once plagued us, how the medicine we take for granted today came to be, and the curious characters and stories surrounding these...
This week, we talk about the highlights of neurological understanding, spanning from Ancient Egypt to the Romans to Medieval Islamic surgeon...
Good evening everyone. As you can tell, I've been gone for a bit longer that expected, for which I apologize. But I bear good news, I a...
Good evening everyone. As you can tell, I've been gone for even longer than expected, and I am sorry for that. I love doing this podcas...
Good evening everyone. As you can tell, I've been gone for a bit longer that expected, for which I apologize. I unfortunately also will...
This week, we talk about the potential future of pain management. We talk about how opioids might be improved upon, and about how interdisci...
In our 2nd to last episode this season, let's talk about the development of functional restoration, and the tiny rise and fall of speci...
Good evening everyone. As happens here and there, some extra responsibilities and some holidays have snuck up on me. This past week, I’ve be...
Thanks for waiting. This week, we talk about the origins of the current opioid crisis. It began with a drug called OxyContin, a reformulatio...
Good evening everyone, Kirby here. I apologize, but I’m going to put off this week’s episode in order to release a bigger, better episode fo...
This episode, we catch up on some developments in the world of opioids while we've been away from it. Oxycodone gets developed, and pla...
This week, we learn about John Bonica, a world-famous wrestler, and then a world-famous doctor and pain researcher, and all around an extrao...
This week, we talk about Wilbert Fordyce, a pioneer in applying psychological research to preventing pain. You may have heard of operant con...
Hello everyone, Kirby here. Sorry but I cannot get an episode up this week. Between a some personal matters and my internet being down for a...
This week, we learn about Stewart Adams, who helped discover ibuprofen, one of the most important painkilling medications today. Check out o...
This week, we talk about the very long journey of acetaminophen/paracetamol, from its discovery in the late 1800s to its eventual widespread...
Sorry for the delay, I took a week off for Lunar New Year! This episode, we talk about some of the applications of Melzack and Wall's G...
This week, let's learn about Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall, two very different successors to Livingston who together published the ve...
Today, we talk about some ways that pain was thought about before the 20th century, and then William K Livingston, who combined a lot of tha...
We're back! Sorry, the last few weeks were crazy, between a Covid exposure and the holidays. This week, let's talk about some of t...
This week, we talk about Silas Weir Mitchell, who was a doctor and researcher who first studied causalgia, or pain caused by nerve damage. H...
This week, we return to talking about opioid drugs, this time discussing heroin, which is to replace morphine in many ways, good and bad. Ch...
This week, we talk about the discovery of aspirin, going from willows to modern pills, with some drama in between. Check out our website! E-...
We continue the story of morphine, and detail its terrible effects on Americans after the Civil War, and how it fell out of favor. Check out...
This week, we learn about morphine, and the one who first isolated it, Friedrich Serturner. It takes a while for folks to figure out how imp...
This week, we advance to the Renaissance era with two stories: Willem ten Rhijne, who brought Eastern medicine to Europe, and William Sydenh...
This week we move onto the Medieval era, and look at the writings of some guy named some version of Nicolai, and Arabic surgeon Ibn al Quff...
We're back! And this season, we're exploring the history of treating pain, or pain management. As per usual, we start this off wit...
This week, let's talk about what the future may hold when it comes to treating mental illness. As always, I'm now taking a month-l...
It turns out, complaining on the internet can be good for something. Check out our website! E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail.c...
This week, we return to the DSM, the big book used by psychiatrists for diagnoses, which comes under fire, but now in the age of the interne...
This week, we learn about the influence of genes on mental illnesses. Check out our website! E-mail me at thehistoryofmedicinepodcast@gmail....
This week, we learn about the development of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the work of Aaron Beck, and finally get a lot better at talking t...
This week, we learn about Eric Kandel, who kickstarted researching brains to try to tackle mental illness. His weapon of choice: sea slugs....
This week, we figure out how to look at brains. Check out our website! E-mail me! Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here!
This week, we talk about Nathan Kline, who illustrates the new generation of psychiatrists that rose to prominence along with the new psychi...
This week, we learn about yet another psychiatric medication discovered by accident, this time by John Cade. Check out our website! E-mail m...
This week, we'll learn about compound G22355, the first antidepressant, and how it was discovered through the weird stubbornness of one...
This week, we learn about the first antipsychotic drug, chlorpromazine. It's another accidental discovery, that revolutionizes psychiat...
This week, we talk about the replacements for meprobamate, the first benzodiazepines, which got sold as Librium and Valium. Check out our we...
This week, we learn about the first medications applied to psychiatric patients. It started off pretty rough with morphine, but eventually,...
This week, we talk about convulsive therapy, or using seizures to treat mental illness, and then upgrade it using electricity. Check out our...
This week, we pick some people's brains... literally. Leucotomies AKA lobotomies were first tried in Portugal, but quickly spread. Prob...
This week, we finally start trying to treat severe mental illness. The earliest progress dates back to around the 1920s, which is when we st...
Sorry this is a little late, was a bit under the weather last week. This episode, we talk about the creation of the Feigner criteria, which...
This week, we learn about Robert Spitzer, who would someday lead the effort to create the third edition of the DSM. But first, we learn abou...
This week, we talk about some of the weaknesses of the early DSM, namely that diagnosis was still pretty inconsistent, which leads to anothe...
This week, the lack of standards for diagnosis cause problems for the US military, and finally the psychiatrists themselves, leading to the...
This week we'll talk about the origins of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short. It starts with t...
Sorry, no episode this week! My editor Jojo is sick, and I don't want to give her a big backlog of episodes to review until she's...
This week, we talk about how psychoanalysts take over the practice of psychiatry in the United States, successfully infiltrating the America...