Neal Baer and John Maa on Taxing Soda
In 2017, the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine published a pair of articles arguing in favor of a tax on soda. The two authors - Dr. Neal Baer, a television writer and producer and a pediatrician, and Dr. John Maa, a San Francisco-based surgeon - provide a concise history of the obesity epidemic and its connection to the consumption of soda in their articles. They joined us for separate interviews about the issue and why they feel tackling the problem of soda is important to the health of Americans.
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Gabriela Lee on Reading Cinderella in the Philippines
We begin our third season of the Hopkins Press Podcast with an interview with speculative fiction author and children's literature scholar Gabriela Lee, whose recent article in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, “When the Shoe Doesn't Fit: Reading...
Robert Karp on Redlining and Lead Poisoning
Our guest this week is Dr. Robert Karp, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. A native Philadelphian, he is a graduate of Central High School, Muhlenberg College and Thomas Jefferson University Medical College, did his...
Scott Kushner on the History of Crowd Control
Joining us this week is Scott Kushner, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island's Harrington School of Communication and Media. His scholarship and teaching explore the ways overlooked media give shape to our everyday...
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