ABSTRACT
Since before the advent of broadcasting radio and health have been entangled in their core technologies, cultural meanings, and role in biopolitics. Medicine and bio discourses became integral to how radio developed and gained social significance; at the same time, radio became part of the increasing medicalization of US society in the early twentieth century. In detailing these relationships, I argue that the co-constitutive nature of radio and health/medicine helps explain the technological, cultural, and regulatory development of the medium, particularly in the US.
