University of California Press

Hi, and welcome to the New Books Network.

I'm your host, Emily Dufton, and today I'm talking to Dr. Sarah Brothers about her new book, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Survival, which was just released in August by the University of California Press.

Sarah is an assistant professor of sociology and public policy at Penn State, and her book is based on the years she spent conducting in-the-field ethnographic research with hit doctors in San Francisco, who are people who inject other people with drugs.

It's a rich and textured portrait of an often hidden demographic and one that empathetically details how marginalized populations are coping with the dangerous and increasingly deadly new era of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.

Hi, and welcome to the New Books Network.

I'm your host, Emily Dufton, and today I'm talking to Dr. Sarah Brothers about her new book, Hit Doctors, Care, Harm, and the Art of Survival, which was just released in August by the University of California Press.

Sarah is an assistant professor of sociology and public policy at Penn State, and her book is based on the years she spent conducting in-the-field ethnographic research with hit doctors in San Francisco, who are people who inject other people with drugs.

It's a rich and textured portrait of an often hidden demographic— and one that empathetically details how marginalized populations are coping with the dangerous and increasingly deadly new era of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.

Hello and welcome to another episode on the New Books Network.

I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Miranda Melcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking to the author of a book out from the University of California Press in 2026 titled American Bread, A History.

Now, very few words in that title, but a lot of things going on in the title, in the book.

Clearly, we have a lot of things to talk about.

Well, it certainly sounds fun.

So best of luck with that.

And of course, while you're thinking about the breads all throughout the world, listeners can read American Bread, a history published by the University of California Press in 2026.

Andy, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

Hi, and welcome to the New Books Network.

I'm your host, Emily Dufton, and today I'm talking to Dr. Sarah Brothers about her new book, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm and the Art of Survival, which was just released in August by the University of California Press.

Sarah is an assistant professor of sociology and public policy at Penn State, and her book is based on the years she spent conducting in-the-field ethnographic research with hit doctors in San Francisco, who are people who inject other people with drugs.

It's a rich and textured portrait of an often hidden demographic, and one that empathetically details how marginalized populations are coping with the dangerous and increasingly deadly new era of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.

Hi, and welcome to the New Books Network.

I'm your host, Emily Dufton, and today I'm talking to Dr. Sarah Brothers about her new book, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Survival, which was just released in August by the University of California Press.

Sarah is an assistant professor of sociology and public policy at Penn State, and her book is based on the years she spent conducting in-the-field ethnographic research with hit doctors in San Francisco who are people who inject other people with drugs.

It's a rich and textured portrait of an often hidden demographic, and one that empathetically details how marginalized populations are coping with the dangerous and increasingly deadly new era of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.

Hi, and welcome to the New Books Network.

I'm your host, Emily Dufton, and today I'm talking to Dr. Sarah Brothers about her new book, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Survival, which was just released in August by the University of California Press.

Sarah is an assistant professor of sociology and public policy at Penn State, and her book is based on the years she spent conducting in-the-field ethnographic research with hit doctors in San Francisco who are people who inject other people with drugs.

It's a rich and textured portrait of an often hidden demographic and one that empathetically details how marginalized populations are coping with the dangerous and increasingly deadly new era of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.

Hello and welcome to another episode on the New Books Network.

I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Miranda Melcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking to the author of a book out from the University of California Press in 2026 titled American Bread, A History.

Now, very few words in that title, but a lot of things going on in the title, in the book.

Clearly, we have a lot of things to talk about.

Well, it certainly sounds fun.

So best of luck with that.

And of course, while you're thinking about the breads all throughout the world, listeners can read American Bread, a history published by the University of California Press in 2026.

Andy, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.