This Pathological Life podcast episodes
Here is our library of show notes for all episodes of the This Pathological Life podcast. You can also find This Pathological Life episodes directly in your favourite podcast app on your smartphone, or in audio streaming services like Spotify.
Episode Eight | Mesothelioma An undisolvable problem
Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral composed of silk-like soft flexible fibres that are resistant to fire, heat, electricity, and chemical damage. Known from antiquity
Episode Seven | Prostrate | A Seminal Problem
In 1920-1930’s, Dr Charles Huggins had an unusual problem: prostatic cancer cells appeared in his metabolic experiments that he was conducting on the Prostate of
Episode Six | Inherited bleeding disorders | Blue Bleeding
Inherited bleeding disorders before the modern era were a death sentence. Haemophilia, also known as the Royal Disease (specifically Haemophilia B), is an X-linked coagulation
Episode Five | A Pathological Addiction to Catering
The Story of Typhoid Mary An outbreak of Typhoid occurred 1906 in a wealthy family in Oyster Bay, New York. Typically, a disease of ‘deprived’ people,
Episode Four | A Pox On Both Your Houses
The eradication of Smallpox: an unmatched medical triumph. Smallpox was a devastating disease described as the scourge of the world. The Variola virus was responsible
Episode Three | The Black Tumour
In the 19th Century there was an increasing numbers of Black Tumours reported in medical literature – described as Melanose in 1806 when Rene Laennec