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Lecture 26 - Final Q&A, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Snowden describes the final exam, and takes questions from students.

Lecture 6 - Smallpox (I): 'The Speckled Monster', Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In the eighteenth century, smallpox succeeded plague as the most feared disease. The two maladies, however, are very different. While plague is a ...

Lecture 16 - The Rawlsian Social Contract, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The next and final Enlightenment tradition to be examined in the class is that of John Rawls, who, according to Professor Shapiro, was a hugely im...

Lecture 11 - Independence, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In this lecture, Professor Freeman discusses the Declaration of Independence and sets the document in its historical context. The Declaration was ...

Lecture 25 - SARS, Avian Inluenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 SARS, avian influenza and swine flu are the first new diseases of the twenty-first century. They are all diseases of globalization, or diseases of...

Lecture 5 - Plague (III): Illustrations and Conclusions, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 One of the major cultural consequences of the second plague pandemic was its effect on attitudes towards death and the "art of dying." As a result ...

Lecture 10 - Common Sense, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 This lecture focuses on the best-selling pamphlet of the American Revolution: Thomas Paine’s

Lecture 15 - Compensation versus Redistribution, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The class’s examination of Nozick's minimal state has raised a number of important questions, most of which are rooted in his troublesome...

Lecture 24 - Poliomyelitis: Problems of Eradication, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the largest public health campaign ever launched, began in 1988 with the ambition of achieving its goal b...

Lecture 4 - Plague (II): Responses and Measures, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Community responses to the bubonic plague ranged from the flight of a privileged few to widespread panic and the persecution of foreigners and othe...

Lecture 9 - Who Were the Loyalists?, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The lecture first concludes the discussion of the First Continental Congress, which met in 1774. Ultimately, although its delegates represented a ...

Lecture 14 - Rights as Side Constraints and the Minimal State, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Shapiro dives more deeply into Robert Nozick’s theory of the minimal, or night watchman, state. This formulation is not redistributive, ...

Lecture 23 - AIDS (II), Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Dr. Margaret Craven discusses HIV/AIDS from the perspective of a front-line clinician. AIDS is unprecedented in both the speed with which it spread...

Lecture 3 - Plague (I): Pestilence as Disease, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The bubonic plague is the measure by which succeeding epidemics have long been measured. Its extreme virulence, horrible symptoms, and indiscrimin...

Lecture 8 - The Logic of Resistance, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman lays out the logic of American resistance to British imperial policy during the 1770s. Prime Minister Lord North imposed the Into...

Lecture 13 - Appropriating Locke Today, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The final Enlightenment tradition left to be explored in this course is social contract theory, for which we must return to Locke and somehow secu...

Lecture 7 - Being a Revolutionary, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman continues her discussion of the Boston Massacre and how it represented a growing sense of alienation between the American colonis...

Lecture 22 - AIDS (I), Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The global AIDS pandemic furnishes a case study for many of the themes addressed throughout the course. While in the developed West the disease lar...

Lecture 21 - The Tuskegee Experiment, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, carried out in Macon, Alabama, from 1932 to 1972, is a notorious episode in the checkered history of medical experime...

Lecture 12 - The Marxian Failure and Legacy, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 We previously established that the reality of scarcity invalidates Marx’s core idea of superabundance, and mortally wounds his theory. Certainly, ...

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