Pandemic Perspectives 2020 / History of the Health Sciences Lecture
Christian W. McMillen PhD, Professor of History, Associate Dean for Social Sciences, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, UVA, and
author, Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction

Marcia Day Childress PhD, moderator

Nine months into the global Covid-19 pandemic, with nearly a million deaths worldwide (and 200,000+ deaths in the U.S.), where are we? How can knowledge of previous epidemics and pandemics and their management help us to assess, understand, and endure our own difficult and deadly plague time—and prevail?
Part of Medical Center Hour's Pandemic Perspectives 2020 mini-series and co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, UVA

Suggested resources:
1. Christian McMillen. Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford Univ Press, 2016
2. Christian McMillen. Discovering Tuberculosis. Yale Univ Press, 2015
3. Carlo Cippolla. Faith, Reason, and the Plague in 17th Century Tuscany. Norton, 1979
4. Steven Johnson. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. Riverhead, 2007
5. Nancy Bristow. American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. Oxford University Press, 2012
6. Richard Wenzel. After coronavirus disease 2019. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2020; 71(6):1365-1366.

Christian W. McMillen PhD is a graduate of Earlham College (BA), the University of Montana (MA), and Yale University (PhD). Now Professor of History and Associate Dean of Social Sciences in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he has taught at the University of Virginia for sixteen years. He is the author of three books: Making Indian Law, Discovering Tuberculosis, and Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction. Prof. McMillen has recently published two articles on barriers to providing clean water and sanitation in the developing world.

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Learning objectives for this program:
1. Consider the chief medical, management, and cultural challenges of an array of past disease pandemics and epidemics.
2. Use historical perspectives on previous pandemics to assess, deal with, and better understand the current Covid-19 global pandemic.

Prof. McMillen declared no personal/professional relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services. Medical Center Hour planning group members M.D. Childress PhD; R.J. Bonnie LLB; R. Carpenter DrNP; J.F. Childress PhD; M.F. Marshall PhD; J. Mutter MD MA; K. Reid PhD RN FNP-C CNL; L. Shepherd JD have no personal/professional relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services, while R. Dillingham MD MPH reports interests with Gilead and Warm Health Technology Inc. UVA Office of Continuing Medical Education faculty and staff have no personal/professional financial relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services.

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