HIST 3365

HIST 3365, Epidemic Disease in History, critically examines epidemic disease and pandemics chronologically and thematically from the ancient world to the present day. Students will explore the histories of specific diseases and the cultural, social, religious, economic, political and scientific contexts in which people have understood and responded to epidemics and pandemics. Major themes include Indigeneity, colonialism, and imperialism; intersectionality and the social determinants of health; the strategies used to treat, contain and manage epidemic disease; the professional and institutional contexts of medicine and medical knowledge about epidemic disease; the local, regional and global contexts of public health emergencies; epidemics and social disruption; public memory of epidemics.