Maybe not, but Medicine gets massive street cred for taking one of the songs from many of our childhoods and giving that song a new lease on life. As of October 4, ‘Scarred for Life’ will be released across online stores and streaming platforms such as Spotify. Even a moderately informed woman squinting at the rough outlines of a terribly compressed history of medicine can discern that quite a bit of what has passed for science in the past two hundred years, particularly where women are concerned, has not been the result of scientific inquiry so much as it has been the refuse of science repurposed to support existing ideologies. Facebook “Because that’s the image: 100,000 shots sticking out of you. While vaccination now rarely leaves a mark, our fears that we will be permanently marked have remained. Honeybees are industrious environmental do-gooders who also happen to be hopelessly interdependent. The smallpox vaccine proved effective even after having been stored for decades and diluted to increase the supply. If it was meaningful then for the poor to assert that they were not purely dangerous, I suspect it might be just as meaningful now for the rest of us to accept that we are not purely vulnerable. Sally Go Round The Roses It’s a cover of Bob Welch’s original composition that was made famous by … The Sweetest Girl The LP is jam-packed with Medicine’s distinctive take on other artist’s songs. There is risk in having sex with just one partner, getting a tattoo, or traveling to Asia. @derekwalmsley Wow, two old SoCal weirdos are now somehow Finns ! Solo Goodspeed – keyboards and chapman stick on ‘Absolutely Free’ Home; Browse Artists; Subscribe; Contact; About; Write For Us! Purity is the seemingly innocent concept behind a number of the most sinister social actions of the past century. Any infant who does not live in a bubble is likely to find the everyday work of fighting off infections more taxing than processing weakened antigens from multiple immunizations. “The 100,000 number makes me sound like a madman,” he told Wired. Clanky harpsichord parts buried beneath the guitars suggest more of a Dukes of Stratosfear feel, but without losing too much of the original version’s spirit. We now know that childbed fever, as puerperal sepsis was called, was spread by doctors who did not wash their hands between exams. A cover of Scritti Politti’s ‘Sweetest Girl’, at least, aims for some listener interest, even if it doesn’t quite work. Benjamin Rush, one of the fathers of American medicine, bled his patients to, as the writers Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English put it, “Transylvanian excesses.” In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, patients were bled until they fainted, dosed with mercury, and blistered with mustard plasters. In 2012, Captured Tracks reissued Medicine’s first two albums with bonus material and rarities. Mind you, we love it, but the song choices have no cohesive theme and although it’s a bit noisy, we’re not trying to be all anything, or whatever,” says Brad Laner. I am healthy, we say, meaning that we eat certain foods and avoid others, that we exercise and do not smoke. His wife’s arm became red and swollen, and she fell ill before recovering from the infection, but the boys had mild reactions. If we were to recast the herd as a hive, perhaps the concept of shared immunity might be more appealing. Bandcamp It comes with a full color gloss jacket and 22×22” foldout poster. All of which we now protect against with vaccination. Those of us who eschew the herd mentality tend to prefer a frontier mentality in which we imagine our bodies as isolated homesteads. He is also, if you believe the Internet, a “Devil’s servant” known as “Dr. The one exception is Bob Welch’s “Sentimental Lady” that begins quite like the original, but then quickly slides into a noisy grungy version. Medicine is perhaps best known for their cameo appearance in the 1994 film The Crow and subsequent inclusion of ‘Time Baby 3’ on its soundtrack, featuring guest vocals from Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser. SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: GOSPELBEACH - LET IT BURN, SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH - MASS. Your IP address will be visible to the administrator (but not publicly) if you leave a comment under any of the articles. Believing that vaccination causes devastating diseases allows us to tell ourselves a story we already know — what heals may harm, and the sum of science is not always progress. As with most of the covers, Medicine have chosen to keep the vocal melody intact, and from that, the tune has been drastically restructured. While women were excluded from formal medical education, male physicians competed, sometimes aggressively, with their informal practice in the home. The vinyl itself will be available exclusively from Drawing Room Records HERE. It is difficult to read any historical account of smallpox without encountering the word “filth.” In the nineteenth century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of “filth,” which meant that it was understood to be a disease of the poor. I was aware, before I became pregnant, of some fears around vaccination. Even the little bodies of children, which nearly all the thinking common to our time encourages us to imagine as absolutely vulnerable, are dangerous in their ability to spread disease. This is far more than a stop gap or contractual filler – it’s stunning. Quite a bit of human solidarity, it seems, has been sacrificed to preserve some kind of imagined purity. Annette Zilinskas is best known for the musically disparate bands she’s fronted. In 1944 Ellington recorded a version with lyrics written by Bob Russell … Black Satin. since then, this band became my all time fave band. And where it is not built on social domination, science can be liberating. When the last nationwide smallpox epidemic began in 1898, some people believed that whites were not susceptible to the disease. Note also the Debt of Nature tapes (also Jim and I) on LalLalLal from a couple years ago, About 2 months ago from Brad Laner's Twitter via Twitter Web App. The sanitary conditions of the urban poor threatened the middle classes, who shuttered their windows against the air blowing off the slums at night. The risk of hospitalization is about one in a hundred thousand, and the risk of serious complications is about one in a thousand.
Annette Zilinskas – vocals and harmonica
Scarred For Life 2. Some contain preservatives to prevent the growth of bacteria. But the results of the vaccine trial, says Patricia Winokur, director of the school’s Vaccine Research and Education Unit, were “unacceptable by today’s standards.” A third of the people who received the vaccine suffered fevers or rashes and were sick, in some cases, for several days. In this tradition, Andrew Wakefield’s now retracted 1998 Lancet study of twelve children with both developmental disorders and intestinal problems advanced a hypothesis that was already in the air — the children were referred to Wakefield by antivaccine activists, and the study was funded by a lawyer preparing a lawsuit built around many of the same children. Taking various songs from the 60s and 70s (in addition to a couple of other detours) this is a record that, in their own words, “relieves the glory of the K-Tel architechts”. This was meant to be his very first shot, the hepatitis B vaccine administered to most infants immediately after birth. While the publicity around Wakefield’s paper precipitated a dramatic drop in vaccination against measles, the paper itself concluded, “We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described,” and the primary finding of the study was that more research was needed. Perhaps if I did not know the source material, it would come off better, however Medicine could have taken this song in a million directions but ended up with a safer approach to it. In 1901, a contaminated batch of smallpox vaccine caused a tetanus outbreak that killed nine children in Camden, New Jersey. The idea that our lives are dependent on our hive might not be very heartening. Mastered by Adam Gonsalves, each LP is pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Still, the proliferation of childhood vaccines has become, for some of us, symbolic of American excess.
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