Two friends discuss episodes in the history of diseases past and present. We lay out the spread of diseases through history to the modern day, and how their history has affected our modern treatment of each illness.
Episodes
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Welcome back to the podcast that we now have to just admit is quarterly. Maybe not forever though! Join us this week as we have a blast wading through the different names of dengue, the severity of it all, and getting riled up about human experimentation- as we do. Follow us on instagram for some not-so-gory visuals to back up the stories we tell, @insickness2020.
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Happy holidays to all! In the holiday spirit, we offer up our newest episode on Lyme disease, a tick-borne zoonotic disease. Just the thing to take a quick relaxing break from all the activities that we often have this time of year! Learn more about the recent (recent) history of this disease, and how it will begin to affect more and more of us due to circumstances 100% within human control.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
We revisit our first episode, where we discussed the Flu and COVID-19, and reflect on the current "tridemic" status many countries are facing right now. A brief overview of where we are right now with COVID, the flu, and RSV, just to keep us in practice.
We'll be back soon with another full length episode- happy listening!
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Content Warning: Abortion, Miscarriage, Donald Trump
We're back, with another spooky halloween episode! After all, what could be scarier than the loss of a vital reproductive health service. Join us as we remember how to podcast, discuss attitudes and perceptions of abortion through history, and explain what the global gag rule is and how it might affect us all.
If you're interested in donating to support access to abortion, please consider https://abortionfunds.org/
xoxo, see you soon!
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
A disease of many faces, lupus has absolutely nothing to do with wolves, and everything to do with your immune system. Follow us on this wild ride that starts with Queen Anne and millipedes, and ends with Ivermectin and orchids. You'll see what we mean.
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
We're back with another holiday themed blood disease everyone! Tune in to hear with this is (loosely) festive, as well as get the hot takes on the Romanovs, the royal disease, and the modern world of hemophilia treatment.
Keep safe, warm, and healthy, and we'll see you in 2022!
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
As if the topic of this podcast wasn't scary enough already...enjoy this spooooooky halloween minisode! This week we indulge ourselves with myths, mystery, literature, and a little pop culture. Learn with us about vampires as a disease, disease as a vampire, and how the two may be inextricable. Until next time, happy haunting.
Friday Mar 05, 2021
Friday Mar 05, 2021
A special birthday episode, for our special birthday host, Angeliki! It says a lot about both of us as people that this might be one of our favourite ways to celebrate- if we can't be together of course. Deep dive with us on this episode, as we look at the origins of human history, colonialism, and their direct repercussions in the modern day, through the lens of sleeping sickness.
This is the disease that launched 16 episodes (our origin story), and one that we had a lot of fun/trauma with. Hope you enjoy!
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Why the long wait, why the take two? Good old fashioned technological illiteracy! Enjoy our finely honed (read: done twice because Maya deleted her audio) analysis of the history and current context of Human Papilloma Virus- and find out what that name means. For which we sincerely apologize.
Join the confusion as we dive into this gendered STD, and the conversation over on our Instagram. See you soon!
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
On this episode of In Sickness we discuss the plague, then and now. Fans of the Black Death (we use the word fan very lightly here) will be pleased to know that there are many more types and strains of plague to learn about, and even to contract in the modern day! Hurray!
Curious as to how the plague relates to at least three Disney movies, our opinions on national borders, and much more? Tune in, and start the new year right- with a nice dose of disease.
Wishing you a happy and healthy 2021, may you never get any of our diseases!
- Maya and Angeliki