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The Clinic & The Person is a podcast bringing knowledge and perspectives from the humanities to certain aspects of biomedicine. “The Clinic” represents all that biomedicine brings to bear on diseases and treatments, and “The Person” represents all that people go through with health problems. Our episodes draw from works in the humanities—any genre—directly related to how people are affected by specific clinical events such as migraine headaches, epileptic seizures, and dementia, and by specific health care situations such as restricted access to care and gut-wrenching, life and death choices. We analyze and interpret featured works and provide thoughts on their applications in patient care; health professions education; clinical and population research; health care policy; and social and cultural trends and preoccupations. Often joining us are the creators of works we feature or experts on the topics we select.
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Against Medical Nihilism Through Perseverance and Humility with Dr Ross Upshur
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Factors Underlying Mental Disorders Depicted in Pink Floyd’s The Wall
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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...He Opens a Window for the Podcast Return
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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When God Closes the Door on a Podcast...
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Cancer as a Narrator in Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies with Dr. Laurel Lyckholm
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Psychedelics for Everyone? Michael Pollan’s Immersive Journalistic Investigation
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May 22, 2025 |
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I’m Sick, Therefore I Am: Illness as Normality in Nervous System with Author Lina Meruane
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Lights, Camera, Deny: Managed Care at the Movies
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Consumptive Heroines: Opera and TB with Drs Linda and Michael Hutcheon
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Painting an Ideal: Luke Fildes’ The Doctor with Hannah Darvin
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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“We Give Up Living, Just to Keep Alive”: Three Essayists on Health Care Decisions
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Heal Me: Childhood Trauma in The Who’s Tommy with Dr. Anthony Tobia
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Illness as Exile in the Greek Tragedy Philoctetes with Paul Ranelli
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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“No Escape from Reality:” Thomas Kuhn and the Reliability of Medical Knowledge
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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“I’m Filled with Desire”: Eros & Illness with David B. Morris
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Andrew Leland’s Country of the Blind: It’s the Same World
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May 10, 2024 |
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What Desire Will Shape a World We’re Left?: Poet Micheal O’Siadhail on Covid
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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AIDS in the Comics: The Graphic Memoir Taking Turns with MK Czerwiec
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Life Imitates Art: Covid-19 Edition
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Painting with Empathy: The Expressionist Art of Edvard Munch with Curator Øystein Ustvedt
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Reconciliation and Denial: Two Elements of Family Dementia Stories
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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He Wants to Itch at It: A Novel, Play, and Movie Imagining Dementia
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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When Neurons Get Tied Up in Knots: Human Fallibility and Folly in Asylum Psychiatry
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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The Dose Makes the Poison: Two Novels, Two Poisons, Two Emergency Medicine Physicians
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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If Pain Were Coupled with Light: The Novel The Illumination with Dr. Ron Boeding
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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How Terrible it Was: Three Takes on the AIDS Crisis with Dr. Ross Slotten
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Getting Dopesick: Four Angles on the Opioid Crisis
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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A Lifespan the Length of a Dog’s: Illness as Loss in the Novel So Much For That
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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I Hold You Still?: Poet Micheal O’Siadhail Explains Parkinson’s Disease in Sonnets
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Beautifier or Destroyer: Tuberculosis in Two Paintings
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Six Kopeks or Your Life: Two Short Stories about Health Care Professionalism and Access
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Sweet Sand of Time: James Dickey’s poem Diabetes with Guest Dr. Jack Coulehan
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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When the Bolt Touches Flesh: Living with Epileptic Seizures
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Holes and Lobotomies: Seeing and Feeling Migraine
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Introducing The Clinic & The Person
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Sep 15, 2022 |