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19 - Of Madness and Moons

19 - Of Madness and Moons

FromBedside Rounds


19 - Of Madness and Moons

FromBedside Rounds

ratings:
Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Jan 19, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Can the moon make you crazy? The superstition is rampant in medicine, but the idea that a full moon awakens psychiatric pathologies traces back thousands of years. In Episode 19 of Bedside Rounds, producer Cam Steele looks at evidence behind the belief and traces the origins of this cultural fossil that has managed to last until the 21st century. Learn about all this and more in Of Madness and Moons!
Released:
Jan 19, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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Bedside Rounds is a storytelling podcast about medical history and medicine’s intersections with society and culture. Host Adam Rodman seeks to tell a few of these weird, wonderful, and intensely human stories that have made modern medicine.