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MHPG913 Black Death to AIDS: Epidemic Diseases in History

Credits
4 credit points

Lecturer
Dr John Perkins

Unit Description
A study of the course and effects of major epidemic diseases, from the Black Death of 1346-52, through smallpox, the cholera pandemics of the 19th century, tuberculosis and the great influenza epidemic of 1918-19, to the current epidemic of AIDS.

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