Red Medicine

Booking Overview

An interview-led health and politics podcast focused on medicine, the body, mental health, and the social consequences of political and economic systems, typically featuring academics, authors, and specialist researchers. Suitable pitches include medical-humanities scholars, mental-health researchers, social-medicine experts, and authors examining healthcare, political economy, or the politics of the body; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need substantial subject expertise and published work.

Metrics

Episodes: 105

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Academics, authors, philosophers, historians, and specialist researchers with established expertise in medicine, mental health, social medicine, political economy, or the politics of the body.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Academic appointments, Published specialist research, Expertise connecting health and medicine with political or economic systems

Recent Guest Discussions

Phil Neel - Capital, The Transformation Of People And The Planet, And The Social And Environmental Consequences Of Contemporary Economic Systems.

Jason E. Smith - Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Service Work, Economic Stagnation, Demography, And Population Change Under Capitalism.

Joelle Abi-Rached - Trauma, Psychic Suffering, Political Violence, Zionist Settler Colonialism, And The Limits Of Trauma As A Framework For Understanding Ongoing Violence.

Recent Topics

Health, Medicine, Mental Health, Health Politics, Social Medicine

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Red Medicine

Do We Live in Hell? w/ Phil Neel

September 08, 2026

Communist geographer Phil Neel joins the podcast for the final episode until 2027. He discusses his recent book Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory, specifically how the power of capital is able to transform us and the world in new and horrific ways. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicine Soundtrack by Mark Pilkington Twitter: @red_medicine__ www.redmedicine.substack.com/

Smart Machines and Stagnating Economies w/ Jason E. Smith

August 25, 2026

Jason E Smith joins the podcast to talk about automation, AI, service work and economic stagnation. He explains how these developments connect and inform each other by explaining the appeal of automation in a time when more and more workers find themselves in the service sector. Jason E Smith is a writer and academic. His work often appears on the Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail magazine, and his book Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (published wi...

Trauma without Aftermath [Political Pathologies ep. 2] w/ Joelle Abi-Rached

August 04, 2026

Philosopher and historian of science Joelle Abi-Rached approaches the topic of trauma, asking whether it is a sufficient category for the psychic impact of the ongoing violence of Zionist settler colonialism. Joelle Abi-Rached is a philosopher and historian of science; she is Associate Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut. And the author of Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East, co-author of Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Manage...

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