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 Mark W. Braun, MD
 braunm@indiana.edu

 
   Mechanisms of Human Disease 
    The Plight of Native Americans and European Conquest
 

 
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Week 14: Yellow Fever and Syphilis
  • Origin and route of spread
  • Vector
  • Introduction into New and Old Worlds
  • Pathology
  • Long-term and implications for spread
  • Geopolitical implications
  • The conundrum of syphilis
  • Old cures for syphilis

 

http://www.louisiana.edu

Online reading, click here
  • Yellow Fever, Black Goddess, Wills, chapter 9 (online)
  • The Columbian Exchange, Crosby, chapter 4 (pages 122-164)
  • PBS Special,  The Syphilis Enigma

 

Week 15

 
 
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