Distillations
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast
- https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations
Revealing science’s role in a complicated and strange world. Produced by the Science History Institute.
Series
- From: Distillations
- Updated: Apr 23, 2018
- From: Distillations
- Updated: May 03, 2023
Pieces
The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.
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- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 56:56
- Purchases: 2
"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 48:57
When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 51:34
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
Is it possible to study human remains ethically?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 44:44
Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.
- Added: May 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 55:48
- Purchases: 1
Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 01:03:24
The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 40:50
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