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Sep 25, 2024
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HIST 3110 - History of Public Health Disasters
The class examines the history of public health in the United States through the study of salient public health disasters and explores the following questions: What has been the historic impact of public health disasters on societal attitudes toward disease, disease causation, and the treatment of disease? How do public health disasters prompt change in public and private life? Topics to be considered include the historical significance of virgin soil epidemics, yellow fever, small pox, cholera, bubonic plague, influenza, polio, vitamin-deficiency diseases, milk-borne and water-borne diseases, infant mortality, maternal mortality, tobacco use, HIV/AIDS, medical treatment as a health threat, and global warming.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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