The noses of famous psychoanalysts, the restoration of lost beards, the medical hazards of bits of hair that get into ears and throats, more of those clever contraptions to trap crooks, and a doctor’s discovery that pathology is and is not just like bird-watching — all these all turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams tells about:
- The Psychoanalysts’ Nose. (“The Psychoanalysts’ Nose— Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess, and Emma Eckstein: Three Nasal Narratives at the Origins of Psychoanalysis,” Annick Le Guerer, Psychoanalytic Review, vol. 88, no. 3, June 2001, 401–53.
Featuring dramatic readings by Jean Berko Gleason.) Here’s video of Le Guerer:
. - Beard Restoration. (“Beard Restoration Using a Free Puboinguinal Hair-Bearing Flap,” K. Sasaki, M. Nozaki, and J. Katahira, Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, vol. 14, no. 7, October 1998, pp. 445-8. Featuring dramatic readings by Daniel Rosenberg.)
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Discomforting hair in funny places. (“Facial fuzz and funny findings — Facial hair causing otalgia and oropharyngeal pain,” Francis A. Papay, Howard L. Levine, and William A. Schiavone, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, vol. 56, no. 3, 1989, pp. 273-276. Featuring dramatic readings by Sue Wellington.)
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Yet a few more clever contraptions to capture crooks. (Mike Hall’s “Drive-up Teller Window Protection Apparatus” (U.S. patent 3956997, granted 1976) / Louis J. Marcone’s “Dog-tracking Scent Dispensing System for Apprehending Burglars and the Like” (U.S. patent 4867076, granted 1989); here’s a drawing from Marcone’s patent:
/ Philip David Jones, Alan Hickling, and Ruth Marjorie Hickling’s “Soft Restraining System” (U.S. patent application 20050240132, G.B. patent application 211771). Featuring dramatic readings by Richard Baguley.) - Pathology and birdwatching, compared. (“Pathology and Birdwatching,” Chhanda Bewtra, American Journal of Dermatopathology, August 2003, Volume 25, Issue 4, p 357. Featuring dramatic readings by Sue Wellington.)
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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