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Pandemics are rarely just biological events; they are profound social, political, and economic ruptures. The study of these phenomena, as structured in MIDV 488, moves beyond the clinical pathology of viruses and bacteria to examine the human structures that allow diseases to spread and the radical ways in which societies transform in their wake. By analyzing the trajectory of global health from the Black Death to the COVID-19 era, we find that pandemics do not create new social fractures so much as they expose and accelerate existing ones. The Biological Foundation of Social Change

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