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This Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) course about the history of public health is offered free to the Internet public through the JHSPH OpenCourseWare program. The course (taught by Graham Mooney during the spring semester of 2005) examines "the historical experience of health and illness from a population perspective." The site provides a brief description of the course, a downloadable reading list, and lecture notes available in MP3 format. Lecture headings include Quarantine!; Body Spaces: From Inoculation to Immunization; Education and Mothering; The Sanitary Idea; and more. Forthcoming JHSPH OpenCourseWare courses include Fundamentals of Genetic Epidemiology, and International Nutrition.
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