This week, we learn about how diseases are spread. Scientists of the last 1800s and early 1900s figure out that seemingly healthy people can still spread disease, and that not only people can spread disease, but other animals too. These are to have massive implications for future public health efforts. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we move into the bacteriological era. Let's learn about how we established that germs cause disease, and about where that might lead soon.Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we'll talk about the first sanitary conference, which was an early attempt at international cooperation on public health issues. Unfortunately, it doesn't go that well, because of some scientific bickering. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk through some of the earliest laws that improved working conditions in the factories, at least for women and children. We also learn about some of the terrible conditions they were working in before that. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about some of the changes that happened in response to the terrible living conditions many working-class people faced. New advocacy groups, government bodies, and regulations were created to help address these problems.Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week we move into the mid 1800s, starting in England, where industrialization is in full swing. Along with it comes a bunch of pretty terrible worker conditions, which eventually become so bad it warrants government response. Let's talk about just how bad it can get. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week we discuss the origins of variolation, or deliberately infecting folks with smallpox to prevent more dangerous smallpox. Variolation then leads eventually to vaccination, and both become fairly wide spread by the mid 1800s, which is to be vital in the advancement of public health.Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we revisit the state of public health. We have some new, really detailed plans from Johann Frank, and some new detailed plans established by the French government, that almost stick. We're getting closer to some actual health policy though!Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

This week, we talk about institutional improvements in the 1750s-1830s, like hospitals and clinics, that follow some of the trends of the time, like more people and more urbanization. These expansions will also establish a pattern for social change in healthcare, that is to apply later in this season as well.Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!

This week, we reach the age of enlightenment, from about 1750 to 1830. And this week, we begin by saving a bunch of babies, with improvements in institutions for poor children, some new regulations, and a bit of new medical knowledge.Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!