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What's Health Got to Do with It?

Music, the science behind it and how it affects us

Music therapist Elizabeth Klinger, right, quietly plays guitar and sings for Augustin as he grips the hand of his mother, Lucy Morales, in the newborn intensive care unit at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago on Monday, May 6, 2013. "The music relaxes him, it makes him feel more calm" and helps him sleep better too, Lucy Morales said. "Sometimes it makes us cry."
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Associated Press
Music therapist Elizabeth Klinger, right, quietly plays guitar and sings for Augustin as he grips the hand of his mother, Lucy Morales, in the newborn intensive care unit at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago on May 6, 2013.

On this week’s program, we took a closer look at music, the science behind it and how it affects us. We spoke with Stephen Gosden, a music theory instructor at the University of North Florida.

'Under the Skin: the Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of our Nation'

Linda Villarosa is a journalist, educator and contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. She covers the intersection of health, medicine and social justice.

Her feature article on maternal mortality in the New York Times Magazine led to a national reckoning on the issue and her new book, "Under the Skin: the Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation" is a must-read that expands upon her work.

Guest: Linda Villarosa.

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