# Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600

- Institution: Yale University
- Department: History
- Teacher: Frank Snowden
- Term: Spring 2010
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
- Source: [Open Yale Courses](https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234#syllabus)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Introduction to the Course](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/ef6799d135e8) (Audio)
2. [Classical Views of Disease: Hippocrates, Galen, and Humoralism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/9cd6c8b5a3b8) (Audio)
3. [Plague (I): Pestilence as Disease](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/754c0e2f6d5f) (Audio)
4. [Plague (II): Responses and Measures](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/e9ce78731c27) (Audio)
5. [Plague (III): Illustrations and Conclusions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/9f11967ff067) (Audio)
6. [Smallpox (I): "The Speckled Monster"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/10feb3cb35f2) (Audio)
7. [Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/910f3709f344) (Audio)
8. [Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/1069af57c148) (Audio)
9. [Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal Reflections](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/1e2fee7a3e54) (Audio)
10. [Asiatic Cholera (II): Five Pandemics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/bdbb7591307b) (Audio)
11. [The Sanitary Movement and the "Filth Theory of Disease"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/2a1e9c59aba9) (Audio)
12. [Syphilis: From the "Great Pox" to the Modern Version](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/d2253edaee3d) (Audio)
13. [Contagionism versus Anticontagionism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/77cbb0e2640f) (Audio)
14. [The Germ Theory of Disease](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/63a0e1cc9524) (Audio)
15. [Tropical Medicine as a Discipline](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/e9b452888394) (Audio)
16. [Malaria (I): The Case of Italy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/f6a507bacf11) (Audio)
17. [Malaria (II): The Global Challenge](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/d9a41e3322c6) (Audio)
18. [Tuberculosis (I): The Era of Consumption](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/3a3bde1a34dd) (Audio)
19. [Tuberculosis (II): After Robert Koch](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/b219e66d61dd) (Audio)
20. [Pandemic Influenza](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/69709d72c64e) (Audio)
21. [The Tuskegee Experiment](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/a0fe8594ed8d) (Audio)
22. [AIDS (I)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/6a3b3482a38b) (Audio)
23. [AIDS (II)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/243370e957d2) (Audio)
24. [Poliomyelitis: Problems of Eradication](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/3e25b2e52f4a) (Audio)
25. [SARS, Avian Influenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/00c8e9286f4e) (Audio)
26. [Final Q&A](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/yale/hist-234/3cb3eec2362c) (Audio)