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memoir that couples water under my bed. growing up in new jersey in the new jersey factory town in the 1980s she believed her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. no one in her family in either the united states or columbia spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her 30s she only knew her aunt had died of a rare illness called chagas but as hernandez dug deeper she discovered that chagas, or accusing the disease, is more prevalent in the united states than to seek a virus. today more than 300,000 americans have chagas. why do some infectious disease make headlines and others fall by the wayside? after her aunts death, hernandez begin searching for answers about who our nation chooses to take care of and who we ignore. crisscrossing the country she interviews patients at the epidemiologist and even veterinarians with the department of defense. hernandez new book the kissing bug tells the story of how poverty, racism and public policies have conspired t ....
for this and all previous episodes. tonight we are thrilled to welcome david hernandes and amy stewart. a former reporter for the new york times in writing about the intersections of race, immigration, class and sexuality for almost two decades. her most recent book is the kissing bug, the troop story of family and insects, nations neglect for a deadly disease. she is the author of the award-winning memoir, a cup of water under my bed. growing up in new jersey, 1980s, hernandes believed her aunt became deathly up from eating an apple. no one in her family spoke of infectious diseases and even into her 30s, she only knew her aunt died of a rare illness. as she dug deeper, she discovered the kissing bug disease is more prevalent in the u.s. and the his eco- forest. today 300,000 americans has it. why do some diseases make headlines and others fall by the wayside? she began searching for answers about who our nation chooses to take care of and who we ignore. she intervie ....
good afternoon, everybody. i m glad to see that we are all alive and well. you all have survived now seven weeks. american history death and dying and u.s. history, we reached week seven. i am steven barry, your host for all things morbid. today not any grimmer than any other day in this class, we will talk about the history of death investigation, evolution of the system of death investigation in the united states, which really matures and comes of age at about the dawn of the 20th century, so it s a 19th century story about how death investigation becomes forensic science and ultimately becomes the csi series. now we all have a pretty lurid sense, i think, of death investigation provided by local news, right? this graphic is everywhere. i found a million of these. it s always the same with police tape and chalk outlines, so we have a very lurid sense of death investigation where if it bleeds it leads school in journalism in the united states. i will take the evolution ....
minutes. good afternoon, everybody. i m glad to see that we are all alive and well. we have all survived seven weeks of american history death and dying, u.s. history. we ve reached i am stephen berry, your host for all things morbid. today, not any grimmer than any other day. we will be talking about the history of death investigation, evolution of the system of death investigation in the united states, which really matures and comes of age at about the dawn of the 20th century. it s a 19th century story of how death investigation becomes forensic science. ultimately, becomes the csis series. we all have a pretty lord sense that investigation provided by local news. i found 1 million of these. it s always the same, with the police tape and chalk outlines. we have a very lord sense of death investigation and if it leads it leads school of journalism in the united states. i m going to take the evolution of the system very seriously and talk about how it has developed ....
night, the light was on. america s in the war. speculated that touches so much? because we knew we were going to lose it. stomach what did that mean for you in hungary? i did not cry then. how old are you? eighteen? i was 18 yes. with that interview the late author john lucas in depth it was born 20 years ago. since 2000, over 230 leading nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared on in depth. alice walker, colson whitehead, bob woodward, neil degrasse tyson, george will, just to name a few. so over the next three hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of in-depth. but also to ask you a couple of questions, here they are. who s your favorite in-depth gas? what book are you reading now? and who is your favorite non- fiction author? and then as we will be talking about her will be showing a video from the past 20 years as well. here s how you can dial in on this 20th anniversary of in-depth. 202 theory code 748-8200 for those of you in the m ....