with Sylvia Wing Önder
hosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz
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The subject of health in the modern period is often discussed as a transition from traditional to scientific medicine and what Foucault has called "the birth of the clinic." Such perspectives view medicine and healing through the lens of changing methods, forms of knowledge, and types of authority. In this podcast, our guest Sylvia Wing Önder offers a slightly different approach to the subject in a discussion of her monograph "We Have No Microbes Here (Carolina Academic Press, 2007))," looking at continuities in the centrality of households and women in making decisions about medical care within a Black Sea village.
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