This course examines the role of disease in history, exploring how disease swept through cities, devastated populations, and transformed politics, public health and economies. Spanning from antiquity to present day, this global survey investigates society's experience with, and response to, such diseases as the plague, leprosy, smallpox, and AIDS/HIV.

Antirequisite(s): History 2818F/G, History 2819F/G.

Extra Information: 2 lecture hours.