Catalogue · Faculty of History
HIST 220
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600
Frank Snowden’s Yale course on how epidemic disease shaped Western society, medicine, and the modern state — from plague to HIV/AIDS. Recorded in 2010 and studied worldwide a decade later for reasons nobody wanted; history at its most immediately useful.
Syllabus
- bubonic plague
- cholera and public health
- tuberculosis
- HIV/AIDS
Held at Open Yale Courses. The materials remain theirs; the structure is ours. Finished it? Record it in your transcript.