HSS 383 Plagues & Pestilence: Disease & Historical Change Full Curriculum Program 2016/2017 Year - Prague

This course examines the social, cultural, political and medical history of epidemic and communicable disease. The primary focus will be on the role and impact of disease in the shaping of history and public health policy. The specific topics chosen reflect diseases that have had a wide ranging impact, eventually becoming agents of change both in the regions where they broke out, as well as the wider world. The course will not be constrained by national boundaries, but rather will focus on the broader themes of historical change in which epidemic illness played a significant role, drawing on such diverse disciplines as conflict studies, environment history, demography and migration, the history of medicine, the history of ideas, and especially public policy.