Jessica Leigh Hester - on sewers
Episode 7, Apr 28, 2023, 04:00 PM
Join us in our conversation with science journalist and Johns Hopkins History of Medicine PhD student Jessica Leigh Hester about her recent book Sewer (Bloomsbury, 2022). We discuss the medical, social, and structural intricacies of sewers – and sewer stewardship – as well as Jessica’s PhD research on graverobbing and the display of human remains. Thanks for listening!
SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED
Jessica Leigh Hester, Mundane Madness, Atlas Obscura (2018)
Eric Grundhauser, “Most of the World’s Bread Clips Are Made by a Single Company: A brief history of the Kwik Lok Closure,” Atlas Obscura (2017)
Alison Kinney, Hood (2016)
Susan Bordo, TV (2021)
COVIDPoops19
Call for Papers for "Skeletons in the Academy" symposium
Robert Mcfarlane
Pablo Gómez
Sasha Turner
Saidiya Hartman
Making and Knowing Project, Pamela Smith
Elizabeth O’Brien
Alexandre White (see our episode with him here)
Jessica Leigh Hester, Mundane Madness, Atlas Obscura (2018)
Eric Grundhauser, “Most of the World’s Bread Clips Are Made by a Single Company: A brief history of the Kwik Lok Closure,” Atlas Obscura (2017)
Alison Kinney, Hood (2016)
Susan Bordo, TV (2021)
COVIDPoops19
Call for Papers for "Skeletons in the Academy" symposium
Robert Mcfarlane
Pablo Gómez
Sasha Turner
Saidiya Hartman
Making and Knowing Project, Pamela Smith
Elizabeth O’Brien
Alexandre White (see our episode with him here)