Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600

Lecture 1 Introduction to the Course

Lecture 2 Classical Views of Disease: Hippocrates, Galen, and Humoralism

Lecture 3 Plague (I): Pestilence as Disease

Lecture 4 Plague (II): Responses and Measures

Lecture 5 Plague (III): Illustrations and Conclusions

Lecture 6 Smallpox (I): "The Speckled Monster"

Lecture 7 Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication

Lecture 8 Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine

Lecture 9 Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal Reflections

Lecture 10 Asiatic Cholera (II): Five Pandemics

Lecture 11 The Sanitary Movement and the "Filth Theory of Disease"

Lecture 12 Syphilis: From the "Great Pox" to the Modern Version

Lecture 13 Contagionism versus Anticontagionism

Exam 1 Midterm Exam

Lecture 14 The Germ Theory of Disease

Lecture 15 Tropical Medicine as a Discipline

Lecture 16 Malaria (I): The Case of Italy

Lecture 17 Malaria (II): The Global Challenge

Lecture 18 Tuberculosis (I): The Era of Consumption

Lecture 19 Tuberculosis (II): After Robert Koch

Lecture 20 Pandemic Influenza

Lecture 21 The Tuskegee ExperimentLecture 22AIDS (I)

Lecture 23 AIDS (II)

Lecture 24 Poliomyelitis: Problems of Eradication

Lecture 25 SARS, Avian Influenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects

Lecture 26 Final Q&A

Exam 2 Final Exam