Halpern + Faste on INFECTED FOR SCIENCE

Today's episode has Greg chatting with Sydney Halpern, a historical sociologist from the University of Chicago who has written extensively about twentieth-century American medical institutions and biomedical science, including 2021's Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis, and Trigvy Faste, an Associate Professor in the Department of Product Design at the University of Oregon, as well as an illustrator and designer in his own right. Their book, Infected for Science, coming out May 26th from Graphic Mundi, looks at religious pacifist David Miller and a group of conscientious objectors who took on an extraordinary mission during World War II: signing up for government-sponsored medical experiments that intentionally infected them with hepatitis to help scientists understand a disease that was sickening American soldiers fighting on the front lines. It also looks at the project's aftermath and legacy almost 80 years later.  [This episode is number 835 in a series.]  CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro  01:22 - Discovering the Archives  03:45 - Trygve Finds Comics Again  05:33 - Meeting Through Comics Class  07:31 - Comics Influences and Models  08:34 - Trygve Comic Origins  12:30 - Building Dual Timeline Story  15:15 - Miller Cartoons Tone  18:56 - Art Style and Accent Color  23:14 - Publisher Pitch and Feedback  28:38 - Page Design and Lettering  31:03 - Seamless Reading Flow  32:12 - Internal Logic Design  33:08 - Dance With Death Spread  38:12 - Creative Nonfiction Boundaries  38:54 - Ethics And Compensation  42:51 - Who Gets Harmed  45:58 - Why Comics Worked  49:14 - Collaboration And Outreach  52:52 - Moral Complexity And Empathy  59:17 - Outro