For thirty years, from 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis as a way to learn about the disease and develop a vaccine. It’s a shocking […]
Rebroadcast: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman
This episode originally aired on August 6, 2020. Historian Susan Reverby’s latest book offers a complex portrait of Alan Berkman, a doctor who was radicalized in the 1960s and joined […]
Our Bodies Are Inflamed
In this era of climate crisis, the world is burning—and so are our bodies. That’s the premise of Rupa Marya and Raj Patel’s new book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the […]
COVID + Vaccines (Edited from “A Public Affair” Dec. 1, 20...
Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine has aired an edited version from a previous episode of the WORT daily afternoon program A Public Affair. PNM has done a fair number of […]
The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman
Historian Susan Reverby recently published a new book, Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman, which offers a complex portrait of a doctor who was radicalized in […]
University of Wisconsin researchers testing temporary cure for COVID-1...
According to the best estimates from public health officials, a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus is still at least a year away. But that hasn’t stopped some medical researchers from […]
