Science & Medicine

530: Robert Klitzman

“The disease, the people believed, was caused by sorcery and could be cured by sorcery,” says this bioethicist. By “the people” he does not allude to RFK Jr. but to a stone-age tribe in New Guinea. Potato/Potahto. Produced with Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies.  Music: Rich Jenkins.

People: hospital chaplains
Place: pool in Central Park
Thing: stone ax head
Randy Thing: Boyle’s list

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