6.1 - Papyrus and Paralysis
This week, we talk about the highlights of neurological understanding, spanning from Ancient Egypt to the Romans to Medieval Islamic surgeon...
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The History of Medicine
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...
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Listen to The History of Medicine, a Society & Culture podcast by Kirby Gong. Stream 131 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 131 episodesReturning to the Show
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...
Extending Hiatus More
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...
Extending Hiatus
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...
5.20 - The Future
This week, we talk about the potential future of pain management. We talk about how opioids might be improved upon, and about how interdisci...
5.19 - Options Outside of Opioids
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...
Delayed for Passover
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...
5.18 - The Current Opioid Crisis
Thanks for waiting. This week, we talk about the origins of the current opioid crisis. It began with a drug called OxyContin, a reformulatio...
Big Episode Next Week
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...
5.17 - A Genus of German Drugs
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...
5.16 - Strongman and Chairman
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...
5.15 - Spaghetti and Bricks
This week, we talk about Wilbert Fordyce, a pioneer in applying psychological research to preventing pain. You may have heard of operant con...
Episode Delayed, Sorry!
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...
5.14 - Super Aspirin
This week, we learn about Stewart Adams, who helped discover ibuprofen, one of the most important painkilling medications today. Check out o...
5.13 - Seventy Years
This week, we talk about the very long journey of acetaminophen/paracetamol, from its discovery in the late 1800s to its eventual widespread...
5.12 - Out of the Gate
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...
5.11 - Opening the Gates
This week, let's learn about Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall, two very different successors to Livingston who together published the ve...
5.10 - The Pain Project
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...
5.9 - Shocks and Surgeries
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...
5.8 - The Most Versatile American Since Benjamin Franklin
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...
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