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metastasis
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metastasis is a podcast lab for stories about science, medicine, and technology. We are a part of the Medicine Race Democracy Lab and a product of The Center for Black Brown Queer Studies. Our producers include Alicia Leong, Aysel Rizvi, Bilal Rehman, Eddie Jackson, Emma Cooke, Jason Lee, Julianne Bi, Katherine Wu, Mandy Quan Taylor Phillips, Tian-Tian He, and Yesmar Oyarzun. Danyal Rizvi is our executive producer and Cher Vincent, our Senior Advisor. Our music is by MOIZ. This project is directed by Lan Li. For more of our episodes, check us out at metastasispodcast.com
Episodes
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The Periphery
In this episode, host Mandy Quan unpacks the disease we refer to as “cancer,” moving beyond its biological etiology to examine instead how it is lived. Mandy and producer Bilal Rehman sit down with MIT Professor Dr. Dwaipayan Banerjee to talk about his recent ethnography, Enduring Cancer: Life,...
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The Dybbuk
Emma Cooke, an internal medicine pediatrics resident, reflects on how reading about spirit possession in dybbuk stories has articulated her own experiences in medical school and training. Emma reflects on the gendered performances of knowledge and authority when inhabiting--and…
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The Rebel
In this episode, producer Jason Lee explores the history of intersex health in Taiwan that complicates conversations we have around gender, sex, health, and ethics. He focuses on the story of the intersex soldier Xie Jianshun, who was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong and forced to undergo a sex change...
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The Cost
In this episode, producers and longtime friends Juliann Bi and Taylor Phillips reflect on the factors that spurred Taylor’s journey to becoming a doctor. Some of these factors include Taylor's family history and her family member’s experiences of place, race, occupation, and disease. Together,...
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The Ghost
In this episode, producers and longtime friends Juliann Bi and Taylor Phillips reflect on the factors that spurred Taylor’s journey to becoming a doctor. Some of these factors include Taylor's family history and her family member’s experiences of place, race, occupation, and disease. Together,...
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The Noise
Senior producer Yesmar Oyurzun sits down with linguistic anthropologist Dr. Beth Semel to talk about how different technological tools are used in biomedicine. In her own work, Dr. Semel studies how data driven diagnostic techniques are used to screen for stages of mental health, which failed to...
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The Numbers
In this episode, we explore how the metaphor of "fighting" cancer stands in cancer research. Where are we in this war? To answer this question, the Metastasis team turned to the history of cancer in a 1997 paper titled "Cancer Undefeated" by statisticians Dr. John Bailar and Dr. Heather Gornik.…
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The Wart
In this episode, producer Yesmar Oyarzun interviews Dr. Andrea Murina, a dermatologist at Tulane University School of Medicine. Yesmar explores a current crisis impacting the field of dermatology. Namely, medical students and dermatologists tend to miss even common diseases when they present on...
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The Warrior
In this episode, guest contributors Els Woudstra and Dr. Travis Alexander explore and discuss the life of Audre Lorde, a self-described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." Our guest hosts explore Lorde's breast cancer diagnosis and her activism in the 1980s. Their critical discussion reveals…
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The Virus
In this episode, host Bilal Rehman interviews Dr. Robin Scheffler, historian of the modern biological and biomedical sciences at MIT and author of A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine. Bilal explores Scheffler’s studies on the relationship…
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The Cufflinks
In this episode, host Eddie Jackson interviews Sissy, the partner of their late Uncle Robert. Eddie and Sissy remember Uncle Robert, his struggle with cancer, and how he remained caring and considerate, even on his deathbed. Eddie also learns about Sissy’s own cancer diagnosis and the family’s...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
metastasis is a podcast lab for stories about science, medicine, and technology. We are a part of the Medicine Race Democracy Lab and a product of The Center for Black Brown Queer Studies. Our producers include Alicia Leong, Aysel Rizvi, Bilal Rehman, Eddie Jackson, Emma Cooke, Jason Lee, Julianne Bi, Katherine Wu, Mandy Quan Taylor Phillips, Tian-Tian He, and Yesmar Oyarzun. Danyal Rizvi is our executive producer and Cher Vincent, our Senior Advisor. Our music is by MOIZ. This project is directed by Lan Li. For more of our episodes, check us out at metastasispodcast.com
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metastasis is a podcast lab for stories about science, medicine, and technology. We are a part of the Medicine Race Democracy Lab and a product of The Center for Black Brown Queer Studies. Our producers include Alicia Leong, Aysel Rizvi, Bilal Rehman, Eddie Jackson, Emma Cooke, Jason Lee, Julianne...
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