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This week, our guest is Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN and pain medicine physician. Gunter’s work, both as a clinician and a writer, is aimed at helping women understand and care for their bodies. That includes countering the large amount of misinformation about women’s health. Gunter is the author of The Vagina Bible, The Menopause Manifesto, and most recently, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation.
Indre Viskontas is a cognitive neuroscientist with the University of San Francisco and a faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has published groundbreaking work on the neural basis of memory and creativity, and co-hosts the popular science podcast Inquiring Minds. Her past City Arts & Lectures interviews include Atul Gawande, Michael Lewis, and Temple Grandin.