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    Lec 16 - Malaria (I): The Case of Italy

    "Lec 16 - Malaria (I): The Case of ItalyEpidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (HIST 234) Of all the diseases studied in this course, malaria has been responsible for the most human suffering. It has evolved alongside humans, and impacted human biology as well as civilization. In the former case, this impact is evident in genetic diseases like sickle-cell anemia which, while increasing vulnerability to a host of other illnesses, has the advantage of conferring substantial resistance to malaria. In social terms, malaria's debilitating sequelae have resulted in a reciprocal cycle of poverty and infection, low productivity and the desertion of profitable land weakening societies' ability to combat the disease and ultimately reinforcing a division between the global North (where malaria was eradicated following the Second World War) and the South, where the disease persists. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Malaria: Relationships between Diseases and Genetics 04:45 - Chapter 2. Scope 15:03 - Chapter 3. Etiology 30:17 - Chapter 4. Symptomatology and Relationship to Poverty 40:14 - Chapter 5. Mosquito Theory of Transmission Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2010.

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