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HIST 234: Epidemics and Society
Plague, germ theory, public health, and ethics.
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Question 1
Germ theory changed public health by emphasizing what cause of many diseases?
- Specific microorganisms and transmission pathways
- Only planetary motion
- Only moral weakness
- Only market prices
Question 2
A quarantine policy primarily tries to do what?
- Reduce transmission by separating exposed or infected people or goods
- Increase demand for all goods
- Abolish all medical ethics
- Prove that all diseases are genetic
Question 3
John Snow's cholera work is famous because it connected disease patterns to what?
- Contaminated water and spatial evidence
- Radio broadcasting
- Federal evidence rules
- DNA sequencing machines
Question 4
A historical study of epidemics often asks which social question?
- How disease reshapes institutions, culture, inequality, and state power
- Why all outbreaks have identical causes
- How to remove society from medicine
- Whether all microbes are visible to the naked eye
Question 5
Vaccination campaigns raise public-health questions about what tradeoff?
- Individual choice, collective risk, trust, and disease prevention
- Only spelling rules
- Only courtroom venue
- Only supply-curve slope
Question 6
The term emerging disease usually refers to what?
- A disease newly appearing or increasing in incidence or range
- A disease that can only affect books
- An illness that has no social effects
- A disease caused by economic graphs
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