3. Plague (I): Pestilence as Disease

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Recorded Open Yale Courses lecture from 'Epidemics in Western Society', a course that combines medical and social history.

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Frank Snowden on bubonic plague as a disease: the bacterium, its transmission and the Black Death's demographic impact.

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Part of Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 with Frank Snowden

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