Flip the Script

Max discusses with Professor Jonathan Metzl, MD, Ph.D., professor of Psychiatry and Sociology at Vanderbilt University, where he directs the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. The conversation covers his broad scholarship, beginning with his book "Protest Psychosis," and factors that shape the overdiagnosing of Black men with schizophrenia, medicine's attempts at medicalizing racism. Then they dovetail into his book "Dying of Whiteness" in relation to major events in 2021, including the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, the fight for (and resistance against) safe gun policies, equitable healthcare, and what it all means in our current political context.  Listen to Flip the Script on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Leave us reviews, and support the pod via Anchor! https://anchor.fm/flip-the-script-max

In this episode, Max is joined by George Aumoithe, Ph.D., assistant professor of global health at Stony Brooke University, in the department of Africana Studies.  They discuss his work on the effect of anti-inflationary economic policy and colorblind legal ideology on public hospitals, as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, namely, hospital bed shortages and lack of access to critical care in disproportionately poor Black communities. They also take a look at what the future might hold with the Biden-Harris administration as the U.S. Listen to Flip the Script on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Leave us reviews, and support the pod via Anchor! https://anchor.fm/flip-the-script-max

Max is joined by Amy Moran-Thomas, PhD, associate professor of anthropology at MIT. They discuss current shortcomings in the FDA's medical devices approval process, with a sharp focus on pulse-oximeters, a device rendered particularly popular during the Pandemic. Studies have long shown that they do not detect low oxygen as accurately among people with darker skin, and yet, little has changed. Read more about Dr. Moran-Thomas' in-depth exploration of how pulse oximeters encode racial bias here: https://bostonreview.net/science-nature-race/amy-moran-thomas-how-popular-medical-device-encodes-racial-bias, and see the large clinical study which we refer to in the episode, published in the New England Journal of Medicine by a team from the University of Michigan: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2029240.  Follow Flip The Script on Twitter at @FlipScriptPod, myself, the host at @MaxJordan_N, subscribe on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get you get your podcast! Feel free to support us with donations at anchor.fm/flip-the-script-max

Max is joined by Adia Benton, PhD, MPH, cultural anthropologist with interests in global health, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University. Given her previous work on the HIV and Ebola epidemics, she shares her insights on the U.S.' management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of vaccine passports, health security and ongoing global health concerns including trade, travel, and the more recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Max is joined by Yale historian of medicine Naomi Rogers, PhD. In their discussion, they compare the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Polio pandemic, with regards to racial disparities during both pandemics, access to treatment and vaccines, and discuss implications for U.S. social and health policy making for the Biden administration.

Max is joined by Jasmine Johnson, MD, Maternal & Fetal Medicine fellow, and obstetrician gynecologist at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. They discuss her work related to preterm birth disparities the toll it has on Black families and other issues related to Black maternal health.

In this brief episode, Max is joined by Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH, associate professor and endowed Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity in the division of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Helth. Dr. Hardeman is a reproductive health equity researcher, but on this episode, they discuss her previous work focusing on healthcare workforce diversity and health, more specifically, racial and gender disparities in medical student mental wealth being, and her insights on needed change in that domain. Listen to Flip the Script on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud or wherever you get your podcast.

Max is joined by Luke Messac, MD, PhD, an emergency medicine resident at Brown University and historian of science and medicine. They discuss his recent book, “No More to Spend: Neglect Construction of Scarcity in Malawi’s History of Healthcare.” They cover the impact of colonization and neocolonialism on healthcare policy in Malawi, and draw parallels with U.S. neoliberal policies and lessons applicable is healthcare system. Listen to Flip the Script on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcast.

Max is joined by Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, an OB/GYN and global health research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. They discuss her research which is focused on intervention to make cervical cancer screenings more accessible to women in rural Kenya, as well as ways to translate lessons from healthcare delivery in low resource settings towards addressing health disparities in the U.S. Listen to Flip the Script on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud or wherever you get your podcast, and leave us reviews!

Max is joined by Adewole Adamson, MD, MPP, a dermatologist and assistant professor at UT Austin. They discuss the controversy around UV exposure and cutaneous melanoma in people with darker skin, disparities in access to care for skin cancer, and pitfalls in dermatological education regarding skin of color at different stages in training. Dr. Adamson recently published a systematic review on UV exposure and cutaneous melanoma in skin of color in JAMA dermatology. Listen to Flip the Script on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud or wherever you get your podcast, and follow us on twitter @maxjordan_n, @fliscriptpod, and our guest @adeadamson.