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A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—"excellent and timely." (The New Yorker) Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in...

A medical humanities podcast. As the podcast of medhum.org, our mission is to explore the human condition as expressed through medicine, literature, and the arts.

Looking for credible advice on healthcare and all things medical? Well, we got you covered with Hello Apollo, Apollo Hospitals’ all-new podcast series featuring some of India’s best doctors. Listen in as they share their wealth of knowledge and experience through easy, relatable talks, covering a whole gamut of topics on health, wellness, nutrition, fitness and more. From useful tips to stay in top health, to the latest news on medical breakthroughs, this podcast has something for everyone. Hello Apollo truly is our care, on air.

Welcome to Thinking In Between. We explore how social theory and qualitative methods can illuminate the messy world of health and healthcare. In each episode, we invite a researcher working at the borderlands of social science and health to choose three “big ideas” that have influenced their research journey and the way they think.

In The Beating Heart, Robin Choudhury explores how the heart has been represented over time and across cultures. He investigates the interplay between the heart depictions of successive eras and the prevailing cultural discourse – religious, social, philosophical – of each. In parallel, he considers how the ‘scientific’ understanding of the function of the heart has unfolded over 2,500 years, from the observations of Aristotle, through detailed anatomical descriptions beginning in the Renaissance, to the emergence of experimental physiology in the 17th century.