# Lecture Notes

Lecturewise Topics
Lec # | Topics
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1 | Introduction: Disease, Medicine, and Society (PDF)
2 | Health and Disease Before Columbus (PDF)
3 | Virgin Soil Epidemics (PDF)
4 | The Health of Colonists (PDF)
5 | Disease and the Environment (PDF)
6 | Urbanization and Public Health (PDF)
7 | The Decline of Tuberculosis (PDF)
8 | Epidemiological Transitions and Health Disparities (PDF)
9 | The Determinants of Health and Disease (PDF)
10 | Debate: Disease History and Health Policy (PDF)
11 | American Indian Medicine (PDF)
12 | Colonial Medical Theory and Practice (PDF)
13 | Inoculation and Vaccination (PDF)
14 | Self Help and Heroic Medicine (PDF)
15 | Medical Education (PDF)
16 | The Rise of Hospitals (PDF)
17 | Race, Gender, and Medicine (PDF)
18 | Psychiatry and Mental Health (PDF)
19 | Anesthesia and the Rise of Surgery (PDF)
20 | Germ Theory and the Therapeutic Revolution (PDF)
21 | Public Health Politics I: Plague in Chinatown (PDF)
22 | Medical Technology and the Modern Hospital (PDF)
23 | Specialization and Medical Education (PDF)
24 | Public Health Politics II: HIV/AIDS (PDF)
25 | Health Care Policy: Access and Cost (PDF)
26 | Disease and Society in the 21st Century (PDF)