History 2186A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Raining Blood, Immunology, Cowpox
17 Jan 2017
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Disease panics in the old world: the history of epidemic disease, small pox, bubonic plague, cholera. Able to watch the progress of disease = greater potential for panic. Disease strikes any society at any time. Disease hits anywhere and anytime and allows us to track differing responses over time and space common factor are able to be id"d. The interest is not the disease, it is the panic that ensued. Sometimes there is no threat but there is still panic. Can be vaccinated for a lot of them now, but go back even a century there was no protection or understanding (how can they be stopped without understanding) 1400s= life expectancy of middleage (people accepted that) Lived in a world where disease is a constant, disease is now news worthy (not as common) Joeseph, king louis, etc: deaths of children 1800 under 5= 90% deaths were small pox.
