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This course consists of an international analysis of the impact of epidemic diseases on western society and culture from the bubonic plague to HIV/AIDS and the recent experience of SARS and swine flu. Leading themes include: infectious disease and its impact on society; the development of public health measures; the role of medical ethics; the genre of plague literature; the social reactions of mass hysteria and violence; the rise of the germ theory of disease; the development of tropical medicine; a comparison of the social, cultural, and historical impact of major infectious diseases; and the issue of emerging and re-emerging diseases.
Course Homepage: [[http://oyc.yale.edu/history/epidemics-in-western-society-since-1600/]]
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Lecture 1 - Introduction to the Course
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Lecture 2 - Classical Views of Disease: Hippocrates, Galen, and Humoralism
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Lecture 3 - Plague (I): Pestilence as Disease
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Lecture 4 - Plague (II): Responses and Measures
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Lecture 5 - Plague (III): Illustrations and Conclusions
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Lecture 6 - Smallpox (I): 'The Speckled Monster'
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Lecture 7 - Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication
Aug 19, 2014
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Lecture 8 - Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine
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Lecture 9 - Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal Reflections
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Lecture 10 - Asiatic Cholera (II): Five Pandemics
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Lecture 11 - The Sanitary Movement and the 'Filth Theory of Disease'
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Lecture 12 - Syphilis: From the "Great Pox" to the Modern Version
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Lecture 13 - Contagionism versus Anticontagionsim
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Lecture 14 - The Germ Theory of Disease
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Lecture 15 - Tropical Medicine as a Discipline
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Lecture 16 - Malaria (I): The Case of Italy
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Lecture 17 - Malaria (II): The Global Challenge
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Lecture 18 - Tuberculosis (I): The Era of Consumption
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Lecture 19 - Tuberculosis (II): After Robert Koch
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Lecture 20 - Pandemic Influenza
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Lecture 21 - The Tuskegee Experiment
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Lecture 22 - AIDS (I)
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Lecture 23 - AIDS (II)
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Lecture 24 - Poliomyelitis: Problems of Eradication
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Lecture 25 - SARS, Avian Inluenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects
Aug 19, 2014
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Lecture 26 - Final Q&A
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