Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 - Video

Dr. Margaret Craven discusses HIV/AIDS from the perspective of a front-line clinician. AIDS is unprecedented in both the... Read more

An ancient disease, tuberculosis experienced a major upsurge in Western Europe in the nineteenth century, corresponding ... Read more

In the last decade of the nineteenth century, malariology emerged as the most prestigious and intellectually exciting fi... Read more

Of all the diseases studied in this course, malaria has been responsible for the most human suffering. It has evolved al... Read more

The sub-discipline of tropical medicine furnishes a clear example of the socially constructed character of medical knowl... Read more

Reliable records of influenza, dating back to the 1700s, suggest a pattern of one major pandemic every century. Among th... Read more

The cultural transition from the romantic era of consumption to the era of tuberculosis derived not only from the germ t... Read more

Asiatic cholera was the most dreaded disease of the nineteenth century. While its demographic impact could not compare t... Read more

Professor Snowden describes the historical detective work that went into the research and writing of Naples in the Time ... Read more

In the decades immediately following the French Revolution, Paris was at the center of a series of major developments in... Read more