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