Disease! Crash Course World History 203
In which John Green teaches you about disease, and the effects that disease has had in human history. Disease has been with man since the beginning, and it has shaped the way humans operate...
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today we're going to talk about a subject that makes me profoundly uncomfortable: disease. This is a tough subject for me personally because I'm a bit of a hypochondriac, but to be fair, my fears are kind of rational. I am afraid that my existence will be ended by a soulless, microscopic organism, and to be fair, they have killed a lot of people. You're not paranoid if germs are actually out to get you, and as we'll see today, they are. Fortunately, we live in the twenty-first century, when communicable disease does not play such a massive role in human history, unless of course you count bird flu, or SARS, or HIV/AIDS, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria-- alright Stan, let's...
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today we're going to talk about a subject that makes me profoundly uncomfortable: disease. This is a tough subject for me personally because I'm a bit of a hypochondriac, but to be fair, my fears are kind of rational. I am afraid that my existence will be ended by a soulless, microscopic organism, and to be fair, they have killed a lot of people. You're not paranoid if germs are actually out to get you, and as we'll see today, they are. Fortunately, we live in the twenty-first century, when communicable disease does not play such a massive role in human history, unless of course you count bird flu, or SARS, or HIV/AIDS, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria-- alright Stan, let's...
