March 8th, 2022
Podcast 284: The clinical situation in Ukraine
Some 85 years ago Guernica was bombed, and after that came Dresden, Coventry, Hiroshima, Bach Mai, and the rest. This episode of Clinical Conversations asks how it might be possible to help clinicians under bombardment in Ukraine. As you will hear, one hospital in Chernihiv keeps all but essential staff away from its buildings when […]
September 26th, 2019
Podcast 235: Forced sexual initiation and its clinical aftermath
Running time: 18 min. Laura Hawks and colleagues undertook a study of forced sexual initiation — that is, a woman’s first episode of vaginal intercourse (and it’s forced when it wasn’t voluntary on her part). Using government survey data on some 13,000 women of reproductive age, Hawks compared the women whose sexual initiation was voluntary with those […]