Introduction
Prerequisites
Course Syllabus
Course Schedule
Online Reading
Online Resources
Bulletin Board
My Grade
Thanks To
Evaluation
Mark W. Braun, MD
braunm@indiana.edu
Mechanisms of Human Disease
The Plight of Native Americans and European Conquest
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Week 9:
Smallpox and other Pocks
Origin
Look alikes and other poxes.
Pathophysiology
European experience.
New World
Unique susceptibility?
'Herd' immunity
An epidemic of epidemics
Immunization and the last stand.
Online reading,
click here
A Pest in the Land, Alchon, chapter 3 (pages 60-82)
Smallpox tutorial
, or printable
PDF version
. (Contributed by
Dr. Tom Hrisomolas
)
A number of
online articles
and book chapters.
Lakota Winter Count Smithsonian website
.
Second graded project due next week.
Week
10
Indiana University School of Medicine, copyright 2004
