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Episode 147 - Primary Care with Troyen Brennan

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Episode 146 - Pandemic India with David Arnold

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Episode 145 - Vampire Epidemics with John Blair

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Episode 144 - Entomology with Bruce Noden

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Episode 143 - The History of Masks with Bruno Strasser and Thomas Schlich

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Episode 142 - Capitalism and Vector-Borne Disease with Brent Kaup and Kelly Austin

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Episode 141 - Foreign Healthcare Workers with Eram Alam

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Episode 140 - Tuberculosis in World War I with Eric Story

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Episode 139 - Risk in Late Antiquity with Cam Grey

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Episode 138 - Tuberculosis in Tanzania with Christoph Gradmann

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Episode 137 - Covid in Taiwan with Wayne Soon

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Episode 136 - Bioarchaeology with Jordan Wilson and Janet Kay

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Episode 135 - Avian Flu with Natalie Porter

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Episode 134 - Marian Devotion and Plague in Late Medieval Italy with Bianca Lopez

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Episode 133 - Cholera in 20th Century China with Xiaoping Fang

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Episode 132 - Plague in the Ottoman Empire with Einar Wigen

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Episode 131 - Pandemic Ends with Erica Charters

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Episode 130 - Reading and Caregiving during Covid with Robert Zaretsky

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Episode 129 - Modern Flu with Michael Bresalier

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Episode 128 - Medieval Recipes with Claire Burridge

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Episode 127 - Infectious Diseases and Podcasting with Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke

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Episode 126 - South Asian Medicine with Anthony Cerulli

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Episode 125 - Pandemic Politics during Covid-19 with Shana Gadarian

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Episode 124 - Emotions and Plague with Philippa Nicole Barr

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Episode 123 - Plague and Astrology with Michelle Pfeffer

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Episode 122 - Smallpox and Virgin Soil Epidemics with Jason Opal

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Episode 121 - A Special Journal Issue on Pandemics with Neeraja Sankaran and Stephen Weldon

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Episode 120 - Genomic & genetic research and racialized communities with Arafaat Valiani

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Episode 119 - Yellow Fever and Climate with Keith Pluymers

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Episode 118 - Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics, and Zombies in American Film with Robert Alpert

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Episode 117 - The Prescription to Prison Pipeline with Michelle Smirnova

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Episode 116 - Smallpox with Ana Duggan and Tim Newfield

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Episode 115 - Medieval Music and Disease with Karen Cook

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Episode 114 - The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic from a translocal and comparative perspective with John Eicher

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Episode 113 - Famine in Lebanon during World War I with Tylor Brand

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Episode 112 - The Third Plague Pandemic in Java with Maurits Meerwijk

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Episode 111 - Epidemic Orientalism with Alexandre White

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Episode 110 - Late Antique Disasters with Kristina Sessa

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Episode 109 - Interdisciplinary Studies of Disease before 1000 (a recent conference Merle and Lee attended)

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Episode 108 - The Russian Flu with Tom Ewing

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Episode 107 - Jews and Plague in Early Modern Europe with Joshua Teplitsky

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Episode 106 - Knowledge, Science and Health in the Early Modern Caribbean

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Episode 105 - Disease and Healing in Ancient Mesopotamia with Troels Arboll

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Episode 104 - Disease, illness and religion in early modern French Canada with Mary Dunn

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Episode 103 - The National Library of Medicine with Jeffrey Reznick

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Episode 102 - DDT with Elena Conis

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Episode 101 - HIV-AIDS in Kenya with Alex Otieno

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Episode 100 - The Infectious Historians’ 100th Anniversary

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Episode 99 - Health and Illness in the Ancient World with Helen Rhee

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Episode 98 - Anti-Vaccination movements with Paula Larsson

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Episode 97 - Empire and the Development of Medicine with Jim Downs

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Episode 96 - Diseases and Urban Space with Sara Carr

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Episode 95 - New Research on the Source of the Black Death with Maria Spyrou and Phil Slavin

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Episode 94 - Epidemic Empire and Colonialism with Anjuli Raza Kolb

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Episode 93 - Pollen, infectious disease and the Black Death with Adam Izdebski

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Episode 92 - Tropical Disease & Medicine with Suman Seth

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Episode 91 - The Mexican Church and Disease in the 16th century with Jennifer Hughes

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Episode 90 - Public Health Labs in History and during Covid with Claas Kirchhelle and Samantha Vanderslott

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Episode 89 - Infectious Historians’ 2nd Anniversary!

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Episode 88 - Immigrants and Quarantine at Israel’s Founding with Rhona Seidelman

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Episode 87 - Pasteur’s Empire with Aro Velmet

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Episode 86 - The Antonine Plague with Colin Elliott

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Episode 85 - Racial Scripts and Pandemics with Keith Wailoo

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Episode 84 - Memories and the Modern Uses of the Black Death with Ben Dodds

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Episode 83 - Using Historical Epidemiology during Covid with Kaspar Staub

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Episode 82 - Animals and Disease with Rebecca Kaplan

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Episode 81 - Archaeology, Pandemics, and Climate Change with Susanne Hakenbeck

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Episode 80 - Spatial Disease and Covid with Graham Mooney

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Episode 79 - Healthcare and Immigrant Healthcare in the United States with Beatrix Hoffman

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Episode 78 - Covid in Iowa with Emily Mendenhall

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Episode 77 - Humans, Animals and the Environment in South Africa with Jules Skotnes-Brown

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Episode 76 - Vermin with Lisa Sarasohn

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Episode 75 - Translational Humanities with Kirsten Ostherr

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Episode 74 - Smallpox, Inoculations, and the American Revolution with Andrew Wehrman

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Episode 73 - Disease Studies Reflections during Covid

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Episode 72 - Climate Change and the Globalization of Disease in the Early Middle Ages with Tim Newfield

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Episode 71 - Zombie Films with Todd Platts

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Episode 70 - Covid, Policy and History with Ben Trump

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Episode 69 - Ottoman Medicines and Disease with Miri Shefer Mossensohn

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Episode 68 - Persecution of minorities during the Black Death with Tzafrir Barzilay

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Episode 67 - Plague in Bombay and Urban Ecology with Emily Webster

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Episode 66 - Early Modern Pandemics, Quantitative Research and Inequality with Daniel Curtis

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Episode 65 - Scientific Freedom, the Cold War, and Communicating Science with Audra Wolfe

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Episode 64 - Commerce, Capitalism, and the Making of Modern Medicine with Zachary Dorner

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Episode 63 - How Plague was Taught during a Pandemic with Janet Kay

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Episode 62 - Cancer with Robin Scheffler

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Episode 61 - Lyme Disease and Long Term Symptoms with Abigail Dumes

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Episode 60 - Plague and Microbiology in Brazil with Matheus Duarte

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Episode 59 - COVID Calls with Scott Knowles

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Episode 58 - Carolingian Medicine with Meg Leja

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Episode 57 - Historical Epidemiology with Jim Webb

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Episode 56 - Historical Demography of Infectious Diseases, Policy and Outreach with Svenn-Erik Mamelund

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Episode 55 - Polio in Hungary and the End of Epidemics with Dora Vargha

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Episode 54 - Alexandre Yersin with Michael Vann

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Episode 53 - Joshua Lederberg: Public Science and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases with Nathan Crowe

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Episode 52 - 1st Anniversary Episode!

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Episode 51 - Yellow Fever in New Orleans with Urmi Engineer Willoughby

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Episode 50 - Ancient Medicine and Heresy with Jessica Wright

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Episode 49 - The Medieval Translation Movement and Late Ancient Medical Texts with John Mulhall

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Episode 48 - Black workers in the US Military: Immune or Infectious? with Khary Polk