Radium and Roses

This brief ~5 minute update is in honor of the one year anniversary of the first episode of Radium and Roses.Give it a listen.

We interrupt season 2 to bring you this brief 10 min interlude explaining why there is not yet an episode 3.

In episode 2 of season 2 of Radium and Roses Kelly sits down with Dr. Brandy Schillace to discuss what it means to write (and exist) and the intersections of academic and public life. We talk about the value of a historical perspective and writing as you research.

This episode introduces the second season of Radium and Roses and explains the new direction that podcast will be taking for this season. Season 2 will revolve around the process of researching the subject matter of Radium and Roses. This episode contains details about the research methodology of "Institutional Ethnography," an alternative approach to sociological research. In this episode, I speak with Naomi Nichols, Canadian researcher and institutional ethnographer, about the scope and context of Radium and Roses.

This episode features an interview with a woman who received the nasal radium treatments as a child and has lived with the health consequences of the treatments.

This episode provides more history about the doctor who pioneered the Nasal Radium treatment, as well as some of his contemporaries who were regularly experimenting with radium on the public of Baltimore.

This episode further discusses the human cost of a risky radium treatment that was used widely across the country.

This episode contains details about how Johns Hopkins hospital and school of public health is complicit in covering up details about the effects of a harmful radiation treatment that was pioneered at the institution. The episode features one of the foremost informed people on the treatment who has first hand experience with some of the questionable decisions of Johns Hopkins.

This episode covers more details about a dangerous radium experiment on young children, a government study that declined to address it, and a present day estimate of how many people received the risky treatment.

The first episode in this series tells the story of my grandfather's brain cancer and the dangerous experimental treatment done on him as a child.