Title says it all. Talk show where host physician-educator-activist and textbook author addresses topics for creating just and healthy communities and a better world.
Prescription For Justice- Slavery and Reparations Pt 1
Talk show where host physician-educator-activist and textbook author addresses topics for creating just and healthy communities and a better world.
Prescription for Justice – Ignorance Pseudoscience and Democracy
This program explores the nature of pseudoscience and ignorance in the United States. I describe the characteristics of pseudoscience and how to spot fake news. I focus on health care, the environment, and threats to democracy. I define the characteristics of pseudoscience, common unscientific beliefs, and the roles played by education, religion, corporations, lobbyists, journalists, and politicians viz a viz informing/misinforming the general public. Pseudoscience and ignorance constitute grave threats to democracy, especially in light of reports of outside interference in U.S. elections and how easy computer scientists agree it would be to alter election results (something that could be easily prevented with relatively little investment to create a verifiable paper trail). Finally, I offer possible solutions for safeguarding education, truth, and democracy.
Prescription for Justice – Lead Poisoning and Corporate Malfeasance Pt 2
These episodes cover the history of lead poisoning, how industry covered up the dangers of lead in paint and gasoline in order to amass enormous profits, the role of historians in helping us to understand public health crises and in contributing to public health policies; the health, environmental, and economic consequences of lead poisoning in the United States and worldwide; the role of screening and the unfortunately limited role of treatment as one gets older; the differential effects of lead poisoning on the poor and on racial and ethnic minorities; litigation attempting to hold the lead paint industry accountable; and the need for greater public understanding of the problem in order to remove lead from the environment, the costs of which would bring a return on investme
Prescription for Justice – Lead Poisoning and Corporate Malfeasance Pt 1
Guest David Rosner, PhD, MPH, Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Co-Director of the Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, member of the National Academy of Sciences' National Academy of Medicine, and author of many books on occupational disease, epidemics and public health, including Deceit and Denial - The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution and Lead Wars