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MIT OpenCourseWare
Disease and Society in America
- Instructor
- Prof. David Jones
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 57 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare STS.005 Disease and Society in America, Fall 2005, Prof. David Jones — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
26 files
- Introduction: Disease, Medicine, and Society Download
- Health and Disease Before Columbus Download
- Virgin Soil Epidemics Download
- The Health of Colonists Download
- Disease and the Environment Download
- Urbanization and Public Health Download
- The Decline of Tuberculosis Download
- Epidemiological Transitions and Health Disparities Download
- The Determinants of Health and Disease Download
- Debate: Disease History and Health Policy Download
- American Indian Medicine Download
- Colonial Medical Theory and Practice Download
- Inoculation and Vaccination Download
- Self Help and Heroic Medicine Download
- Medical Education Download
- The Rise of Hospitals Download
- Race, Gender, and Medicine Download
- Psychiatry and Mental Health Download
- Anesthesia and the Rise of Surgery Download
- Germ Theory and the Therapeutic Revolution Download
- Public Health Politics I: Plague in Chinatown Download
- Medical Technology and the Modern Hospital Download
- Specialization and Medical Education Download
- Public Health Politics II: HIV/AIDS Download
- Health Care Policy: Access and Cost Download
- Disease and Society in the 21st Century Download
Assignments
18 files
- Introduction and Goals Download
- Identifying and Understanding Arguments Download
- Reading Primary Sources Download
- Reading Carefully Download
- Graphs, Graphs, Graphs! Download
- Assignment 5 Download
- Relativism Download
- Inoculation Debates Download
- Fixing a Broken Profession Download
- Science and Bias Download
- Public Health and Individual Rights Download
- Assignment 11 Download
- Medical Technology and Disease Download
- Explaining Disease: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? Download
- Paper Assignments Paper Assignment 1 Download
- Paper Assignment 2 Download
- Paper Assignment 3 Download
- Paper Assignment 4 Download
Study Materials
13 files
- Study Guide 1: Trans-Atlantic Epidemiology Download
- Study Guide 2: Health and the Environment Download
- Study Guide 3: Urbanization and Health Download
- Study Guide 4: Epidemiological Transitions Download
- Study Guide 5: Disease History and Health Policy Download
- Study Guide 6: Colonial Therapeutics Download
- Study Guide 7: Medicine in the 18th Century Download
- Study Guide 8: Creating a Medical Profession Download
- Study Guide 9: Scientific Racism/Sexism Download
- Study Guide 10: Therapeutic Revolutions Download
- Study Guide 11: Public Health Politics Download
- Study Guide 12: Medical Technologies Download
- Study Guide 13: Public Health Revisited Download
Course outline
Assignments · Lecture Notes
Lecture 10: Assignment 5 ( PDF )
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Lecture 21: Assignment 11 ( PDF )
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