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Lecture 26 - Final Q&A,  Epidemics in Western Society 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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