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Life - An Inside JobAutistic perimenopauseWhat happens to Autistic women and non-binary people in menopause? At a time when more and more people are receiving a diagnosis of Autism in midlife, we are only just beginning to discover what's going on.In this episode, we hear a range of Autistic people talking about their experiences of their perimenopause and postmenopause life, what helped them, and what made things worse. Dr Rachel Mosely, who is Autistic herself and the principal academic in the Department of Psychology at Bournemouth University, offers us an overview of the situation along with her excellent research papers on...2022-08-311h 09
Collecting COVID: Oral HistoriesProfessor Erica ChartersGeorgina Ferry interviews Erica Charters, Professor of the Global History of Medicine, 6 December 2021. Topics discussed include (00:00:30) EC's early studies in the history of disease, doctorate at Oxford on the history of medicine (under Professor Mark Harrison, with particular interest in disease during the Seven Years' War), lecture post at Oxford from 2009; (00:01:40) interest in disease and the human experience; (00:02:47) long-term perspectives on disease and historical perspectives including social, cultural, political; (00:05:15) historic pandemics and Charles Rosenberg article “What is an Epidemic?” written during the AIDS epidemic; (00:07:50) tools used to explore the narrative of an epidemic; (00:10:12) first memory of COVID-19 in early 2020; (00:11:42) EC's rese...2022-07-2952 min
How Epidemics EndMargaret Pelling and the History of Cholera in EnglandDr Margaret Pelling (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how historians understand disease and the myths about the end of cholera in nineteenth-century England.2021-10-0817 min