The burdens of disease. Epidemics and Human Response in Western H

1. The Western Inheritance: Greek and Roman Ideas about Disease. 2. Medieval Diseases and Responses. 3. The Great Plague Pandemic. 4. New Diseases and Transatlantic Exchanges. 5. Continuity and Change: Magic, religion, Medicine, and Science, 500-1700. 6. Disease and the Enlightment. 7. Cholera and Sanitation. 8. Tuberculosis and Poverty. 9. Disease, Medicine, and Western Imperialism. 10. The Scientific View of Disease and the Triumph of Professional Medicine