Epidemics in
Western Society
Since 1600
Frank Snowden - Yale University
1. Introduction to the Course
2. Classical Views of Disease: Hippocrates, Galen, and Humoralism
3. Plague I:
Pestilence as Disease
4. Plague II:
Responses and Measures
5. Plague III:
Illustrations and Conclusions
6. Smallpox I:
'The Speckled Monster'
7. Smallpox II:
Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication
8. Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine
9. Asiatic Cholera I: Personal Reflections
10. Asiatic Cholera II: Five Pandemics
11. The Sanitary Movement and the 'Filth Theory of Disease'
12. Syphilis: From the "Great Pox" to the Modern Version
13. Contagionism versus Anticontagionsim
14. The Germ Theory of Disease
15. Tropical Medicine as a Discipline
16. Malaria I:
The Case of Italy
17. Malaria II:
The Global Challenge
18. Tuberculosis I:
The Era of Consumption
19. Tuberculosis II:
After Robert Koch
21. The Tuskegee Experiment
24. Poliomyelitis: Problems of Eradication
25. SARS, Avian Influenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects