These episodes cover the history of lead poisoning, how industry covered up the dangers of lead in paint and gasoline in order to amass enormous profits, the role of historians in helping us to understand public health crises and in contributing to public health policies; the health, environmental, and economic consequences of lead poisoning in the United States and worldwide; the role of screening and the unfortunately limited role of treatment as one gets older; the differential effects of lead poisoning on the poor and on racial and ethnic minorities; litigation attempting to hold the lead paint industry accountable; and the need for greater public understanding of the problem in order to remove lead from the environment, the costs of which would bring a return on investme