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HIST 234: Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600

Lecture 26 - Final Q & A. Professor Snowden describes the final exam, and takes questions from students. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 26 - Final Q & A

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Logistics
[00:05:26] 2. What Determines the Historical Significance of an Epidemic?
[00:14:33] 3. Diseases of Modernity
[00:20:48] 4. Diseases of Poverty
[00:35:47] 5. Magic Bullets

References
Lecture 26 - Final Q & A
Instructor: Professor Frank Snowden. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction to the Course
Lecture 02 - Classical Views of Disease: Hippocrates, Galen, and Humoralism
Lecture 03 - Plague (I): Pestilence as Disease
Lecture 04 - Plague (II): Responses and Measures
Lecture 05 - Plague (III): Illustrations and Conclusions
Lecture 06 - Smallpox (I): "The Speckled Monster"
Lecture 07 - Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication
Lecture 08 - Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine
Lecture 09 - 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
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 Experiment
Lecture 22 - AIDS (I)
Lecture 23 - AIDS (II)
Lecture 24 - Poliomyelitis: Problems of Eradication
Lecture 25 - SARS, Avian Inluenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects
Lecture 26 - Final Q & A