Posts Tagged: NPR

As the hour of last week’s This American Life was coming to close, I realized how Foucauldian this story was.  “81 Words” is about how the American Psychiatric Association came to the decision to remove homosexuality as a disease from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973.  This tale not only deals with power […]

Earlier this week on NPR’s Fresh Air host Terry Gross interviewed Randi Epstein about her book Get Me Out, chronicling the history of childbirth.  Gross and Epstein discuss some of the reasons why so many women died before modern medicine.