James Hanley Dept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health Faculty of Medicine Home Page: http://jhanley.biostat.mcgill.ca E-mail: james.hanley@mcgill.ca

Notes re. May 5, 2017 lecture: Epidemiology: Unraveling Medical Mysteries at Cummings Centre
Resources related to MiniMed lecture: Epidemiology: Unraveling Medical Mysteries October 21, 2014 (and to the other lectures in the 6-lecture series) These Resources can be found at: http://jhanley.biostat.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/minimed
	Advance Material Figuring out what makes people sick -- starts at minute 31.30 CJAD Radio Interview, James Hanley, September 23, 2014 Epidemiologists look at the big picture to solve medical mysteries Christopher Labos, The Montreal Gazette, October 13, 2014 Epidemics James Hanley, CTV Interview, October 9, 2014 Electronic Medical Records Robyn Tamblyn, CTV Interview, October 10, 2014 The Safety of Medications Pierre Ernst, CTV Interview, October 16, 2014 Presentation: J Hanley 2014.10.21 Slides Transcript Video (YouTube) Source Video (McGill)   (McGill site has source audio & video of all 6 lectures, indexed by date); BOOK: Disease: the extraordinary stories behind history's deadliest killers Cover Table of Contents Preface Chapter on Cholera Chapters on... Plague   Puerperal Fever  Smallpox  Polio  Ebola  SARS  Glossary LECTURE SERIES on EPIDEMICS Open Yale Courses: EPIDEMICS IN WESTERN SOCIETY SINCE 1600 link to 26 1-hour lectures (YouTube and iTunes) JAMA Interview Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Epidemics in History Infectious epidemics have always driven change in human societies. Frank Snowden, Professor Emeritus of History of Medicine at Yale University and author of Epidemics and Society (2019), puts the COVID19 pandemic in historical context. LECTURE SERIES on The History of Public Health / Medicine Johns Hopkins University Provides a broad outline of the historical context and development of public health. Assesses the various challenging hazards to health throughout history. BBC The making of Modern Medicine. Narrative history series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine, with medical historian Andrew Cunningham The cause of endemial COLIC of DEVONSHIRE An Essay concerning the cause of endemial colic of Devonshire. George Baker. 1767 The Devonshire Colic - J Hist. Med 1970 SMALLPOX Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague (National Film Board of Canada) Trailer Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague (52 min. access from university web domain) 1954 TRIAL OF SALK POLIO VACCINE link to various materials (incl. videos from Univ. of Michigan) 60th Anniversary MAPS: 7 Cholera Pandemics Maps WEBSITES on John Snow UCLA Michigan State University The John Snow Society BOOKS, VIDEOS, AUDIO: BBC Dramatization (45 min Video): The Sewer King (J Bazalgette) IMDB   YouTube (Has very good dramatization of work of John Snow and William Farr; also available in Netflix in Seven Wonders of the Industrial World series, episode 5.) Book: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson John Snow: Anaesthetist to a Queen and Epidemiologist to a Nation-a Biography by David Shephard Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow by Peter Vinten-Johansen et al. Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti 1   2   Interviews with author Ralph R. Frerichs And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition Paperback - Nov 27 2007 And the Band Played On - the Movie (IMDB) The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom (Stephen Stigler 2016) Private ICU Rooms Article ARTICLE: Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy? NY Times, 2007.09.16 Article Other HRT material MYSTERIES: Figuring out the cause of -- and preventing -- Childbed Fever prepared by BIOS601 student in 2007 Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever by Ignaz Semmelweis (Author) and K. Codell Carter (Translator) (Google "semmelweis' - ***weis not ***weiss) Mystery Dataset: What happened to these people? What are the most dispensed medications (Canada 2010)? And identify 3 classics! Why this pattern on this specific afternoon in 2010? Incidentally: the ML on the vertical axis stands for megaliter, one million liters. Incidentally also, the time dimension is missing. In this annual water consumption report from the city of Winnipeg, the time unit is stated. What events were these? Example: In the top two panels, 269 and 588 respectively took place at 13.01. OTHER LINKS: The discovery of penicillin (1964) Video Project Tycho® is a project at the University of Pittsburgh to advance the availability and use of public health data for science and policy making. Currently, the Project Tycho® database includes data from all weekly notifiable disease reports for the United States dating back to 1888. These data are freely available to anybody interested. Additional U.S. and international data will be released twice yearly. Contagious Diseases in the United States from 1888 to the Present (NEJM article based on Project Tycho® database) Interviews, by J. Hanley, of senior McGill faculty members (Miettinen, McGregor, Pless, Theriault) OTHER JH MATERIAL Pandemics article Bridge of Life Qoutes re. Statistics Quiz in Infectious Diseases (2020.04.03) ENTIRE SERIES AS BROADCAST BY CANAL SAVOIR LINK McGILL EPIDEMIOLOGY -- YOUTUBE VIDEOS (Minimed + Other) [Google Youtube McGill Epidemiology] LINK

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