American Epidemics
Disease, Race, Nation
American Epidemics
Show overview
American Epidemics has published 5 episodes during 2024. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 5 min and 5 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Health & Fitness show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 1.4 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year.
From the publisher
Individual stories of epidemic disease, produced by the American Epidemics seminar at Wheaton College in Fall 2024.
Latest Episodes
Life Cut Short (HIV/AIDS)- Shamaine Khumalo
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Les Talk About AIDS!
This podcast from Ari Renzi-Surprenant, will give insight of what it was like living as a lesbian during the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and…
Ryan White (Andrew Mercer)
In this podcast Andrew Mercer, a student at Wheaton College, MA, will talk about an 18-year-old boy named Ryan White. It will go into what…
Beets, Beans, and Biomagnification: The Dieldrin Epidemic
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MAP Podcasts: Exploring Polio
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