EP #253 - 04.05.2021 - Teletherapy and the Pandemic

Today is a discussion with Hannah Zeavin, author of the new book The Distance Cure

Hannah Zeavin  is a Lecturer in the Departments of English and History at UC Berkeley, and a faculty affiliate of the University of California at Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society.  Her research focuses on the coordinated histories of technology and medicine. Zeavin is the author of  The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy  (MIT Press, August 2021)   and at work on her second book,  Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family  (MIT Press, 2023) .  Other work has appeared or is forthcoming   in   differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Logic Magazine,  the  Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate,  and elsewhere.