Social History of Infectious Disease (PUBHLTH 405)

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Slides

1. First day: Introduction
2. What can we learn from public health history?
3. Outbreak, epidemic, pandemic
4. Explaining Epidemics
5. Contamination Workshop (no slides)
6. Walking into Golden Square
7. Miasma vs. Germ Theory
8. Miasma and the persistent power of bad ideas
9. Making the Case
10. Configuration Workshop (no slides)
11. Causes, Fundamental
12. Infectious Fear 1
13. Infectious Fear 2
14. Finishing Touches Workday
15. Proposal Presentation Workday (no slides)
16. Infectious Fear 3
17. AIDS Crisis: Gay Plague
18. AIDS Crisis: How to Have Sex in an Epidemic
19. AIDS Crisis: The Baths
20. AIDS Crisis: Blood
21. (Final) Final Project Workday