Latest Episodes
June 23, 2022
A Clinical Bioethicist on End-of-Life Decision-Making
Dr. Sean Hillman discusses caregiving work and his research on end-of-life care in India through the lenses of religious studies, bioethics and the law....
00:51:55
June 14, 2022
The Paisley Gate: Intersections of Buddhism & Psychedelics
As psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies march towards likely legality for therapeutic purposes, we may ask how Buddhism and psychedelics intersect. In this episode, Kerry Helston explores...
00:35:04
June 02, 2022
ReOrienting Medicine on the Silk Roads
A conversation with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim on her ground-breaking 2021 book, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads. Ronit's research on Eurasian medical...
00:38:28
May 23, 2022
How Buddhism Shapes Medical Care
A conversation with Pierce Salguero on his 2022 book, A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine. Pierce explains what it means to talk about...
00:41:03
May 20, 2022
Becoming a Buddhist Spiritual Care Provider
A conversation about Buddhist spiritual care work with Joanne Yuasa, a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist minister who is also in training to be a military...
00:34:56
May 19, 2022
Using Mantras for Healing in Tibetan Medicine
Thinley Gyatso discusses the use of mantras in Tibetan medical practice. He describes early medical texts that address how mantras are used as healing...
00:15:55