Religion in a Global Society

Religion in a Global Society

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 197 , Segment 1

Episode: Religion and Globalization, Math Stories, Car Crash Risks, Nigeria

  • Dec 15, 2015 10:00 pm
  • 22:17 mins

Guest: Mark Juergensmeyer, PhD, Founding Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara and Author of “God in the Tumult of the Global Square: Religion in Global Civil Society” The internet, mobile phones and satellite TV have made the world a much smaller place. Through them, you can immigrate to a new country but still feel connected to the people and culture of your home. You can live in the US, but wear a hat knit by a woman in the far reaches of the Himalayas. For a month’s salary or less, you could hop on a plane and be face to face with that knitter in a day’s time. “Globalization” is what experts call this. Boundaries tend to mean less; cultures tend to blend more when we’re all so much more in touch. So here’s the question a group of scholars have been chewing on recently -- what does this smaller world mean for religion? For its place in our lives? And for the power of religious organizations in society?

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Medical Side Effects on Women

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Guest: Alyson McGregor, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University, Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, Attending Physician at Rhode Island Hospital, Co-founder of the Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative When your doctor says, something like “this medicine has been shown to work well in 60% of patients,” you probably think – “Well, hey, I’ve got a pretty good chance it’ll work well for me.” But, now let’s say you’re a woman and the doctor said, “this medicine has been shown to work well in 60% of men.” Then you’d be thinking – yeah, and…what about women? And here’s the thing – your doctor probably won’t have the answer. Because, drugs are mainly tested on men – or cells that came from men. It’s been that way for decades, but there is growing interest in addressing “gender blindness” in the drug mark

Guest: Alyson McGregor, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University, Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, Attending Physician at Rhode Island Hospital, Co-founder of the Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative When your doctor says, something like “this medicine has been shown to work well in 60% of patients,” you probably think – “Well, hey, I’ve got a pretty good chance it’ll work well for me.” But, now let’s say you’re a woman and the doctor said, “this medicine has been shown to work well in 60% of men.” Then you’d be thinking – yeah, and…what about women? And here’s the thing – your doctor probably won’t have the answer. Because, drugs are mainly tested on men – or cells that came from men. It’s been that way for decades, but there is growing interest in addressing “gender blindness” in the drug mark