Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (Yale)

• 1. Introduction to the Course (Yale)
• 2. Classical Views of Disease: Hippocrates, Galen, and Humoralism (Yale)
• 3. Plague (I): Pestilence as Disease (Yale)
• 4. Plague (II): Responses and Measures (Yale)
• 5. Plague (III): Illustrations and Conclusions (Yale)
• 6. Smallpox (I): 'The Speckled Monster' (Yale)
• 7. Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication (Yale)
• 8. Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine (Yale)
• 9. Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal Reflections (Yale)
• 10. Asiatic Cholera (II): Five Pandemics (Yale)
• 11. The Sanitary Movement and the 'Filth Theory of Disease' (Yale)
• 12. Syphilis: From the "Great Pox" to the Modern Version (Yale)
• 13. Contagionism versus Anticontagionsim (Yale)
• 14. The Germ Theory of Disease (Yale)
• 15. Tropical Medicine as a Discipline (Yale)
• 16. Malaria (I): The Case of Italy (Yale)
• 17. Malaria (II): The Global Challenge (Yale)
• 18. Tuberculosis (I): The Era of Consumption (Yale)
• 19. Tuberculosis (II): After Robert Koch (Yale)
• 21. The Tuskegee Experiment (Yale)
• 22. AIDS (I) (Yale)
• 23. AIDS (II) (Yale)
• 24. Poliomyelitis: Problems of Eradication (Yale)
• 25. SARS, Avian Inluenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects (Yale)
• 26. Final Q&A (Yale)