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Lecture 2 - Classical Views of Disease: Hippocrates, Galen, and Humoralism, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The form of medicine that arose in fifth-century Greece, associated with the name of Hippocrates and later popularized by Galen, marked a major in...

Lecture 6 - Resistance or Rebellion? (Or, What the Heck is Happening in Boston?), The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman discusses the mounting tensions between the colonists and the British in the late 1760s and early 1770s. The Virginia Resolves we...

Lecture 1 - Introduction to the Course, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Epidemics, or high-impact infectious diseases, have had an historical impact equal to that of wars, revolutions and economic crises. This course l...

Lecture 17 - Malaria (II): The Global Challenge, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In the last decade of the nineteenth century, malariology emerged as the most prestigious and intellectually exciting field in the new discipline ...

Lecture 22 - The Road to the Constitutional Convention, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In this lecture, Professor Freeman discusses how the new nation moved towards creating a stronger, more centralized national government than the A...

Lecture 20 - Pandemic Influenza, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Reliable records of influenza, dating back to the 1700s, suggest a pattern of one major pandemic every century. Among the pandemics for which ther...

Lecture 2 - Being a British Colonist, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman discusses what it meant to be a British colonist in America in the eighteenth century. She explains how American colonists had de...

Lecture 7 - The Neoclassical Synthesis of Rights and Utility, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 John Stuart Mill’s synthesis rights and utility follows naturally in the vein of neoclassical utilitarianism, and it attempts to compensate for ma...

Lecture 11 - Marxian Exploitation and Distributive Justice, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Exploitation is an important technical--not normative--concept in the theory of Karl Marx. Although we are dealing with voluntary Pareto transactio...

Lecture 25 - Being an American: The Legacy of the Revolution, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman discusses when we can consider a revolution to have ended, arguing that a revolution is finally complete when a new political re...

Lecture 5 - Outraged Colonials: The Stamp Act Crisis, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman concludes her discussion (from the previous lecture) of the three early instances in which the American colonies joined together ...

Lecture 10 - Marx’s Theory of Capitalism, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Today, Professor Shapiro continues his discussion of Enlightenment theory of Karl Marx, focusing on the foundations of his theory of capitalism. T...

Lecture 19 - Tuberculosis (II): After Robert Koch, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The cultural transition from the romantic era of consumption to the era of tuberculosis derived not only from the germ theory of disease and the tr...

Lecture 14 - The Germ Theory of Disease, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Although the development of the germ theory of disease in the latter half of the nineteenth century marks a major revolution in medical science, c...

Lecture 23 - Creating a Constitution, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman discusses the debate over the Constitution at the Federal Convention of 1787 - a convention that by no means had an inevitable ou...

Lecture 24 - Creating a Nation, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman discusses the national debate over the proposed Constitution, arguing that in many ways, when Americans debated its ratification...

Lecture 8 - Limits of the Neoclassical Synthesis, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Although the harm principle as introduced in the last lecture seems straightforward at first glance, today Professor Shapiro discusses its ambigui...

Lecture 19 - War and Society, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In this lecture, Professor Freeman discusses the experiences of African Americans, women, and Native Americans during the Revolution, framing her ...

Lecture 16 - Malaria (I): The Case of Italy, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Of all the diseases studied in this course, malaria has been responsible for the most human suffering. It has evolved alongside humans, and impact...

Lecture 15 - Tropical Medicine as a Discipline, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The sub-discipline of tropical medicine furnishes a clear example of the socially constructed character of medical knowledge. Tropical diseases fir...

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