2. The Making of a Germ Panic, Then and Now  Tomes argues that there were two distinct periods of germ panic in the 20 th Century

3. 1900-1940  Before antibiotics but after bacteriological awareness and the abandonment of the miasma theory of disease  A “print revolution” that increases awareness

4.  Public health campaigns aimed at hygienic practices  Diseases like flu, tuberculosis as targets of these campaigns  Spanish Flu Pandemic 1918-19  More people died of flu than died in fighting in WWI  Estimated over 100 million people died

5.  Advertising practices aimed at increasingly germ-aware public  Products like Lysol  Practices and procedures of hygiene in the home  Problematization of domestic space

6. Antibiotics  Developed during and after WWI by Sir Alexander Fleming  Connected to the treatment of infections in military hospitals  Many died from infections, not from wounds  Antibiotics not widely available until 1942

7. The Magic Bullet  Idea that all infections would be swiftly dealt with by antibiotics  Overuse – for ailments where not needed, in animals  Misuse – prescribed for viral infections which are not affected by antibiotics

8. 1985 - Now  Emergence of HIV/AIDS in early 1980s  Arrogance connected to magic bullet and idea that diseases like small pox or polio could be wiped out

9. Hygienic Practices  Food handling practices  BSE or mad-cow disease  Tensions between public health and private hygiene

10. Emerging Infectious Diseases  HIV/AIDS  Ebola  Hanta  More recently, H5N1, H1N1, and SARS  http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=rGZ3K7Q0j 9U http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=rGZ3K7Q0j 9U

11. Cultural Imaginings of Pandemics  Films like Contagion (2011), 12 Monkeys (1995) and Outbreak (1995)  Made-for-TV movies like Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America  http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=j1naQSJWwbk http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=j1naQSJWwbk  http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=UwNMGdWyjcc http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=UwNMGdWyjcc  http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=BswcvmjbreE http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=BswcvmjbreE

12. Superbugs!  MRSA (methicilin- resistant stapholococus aureus)  c difficile  Multi-drug resistance means illnesses that were once treatable are becoming harder to treat  Eg. Tuberculosis, salmonella, pneumonia

13. New Products for a New Germ Panic  Lysol  http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=qJh1Q4Yg SHE http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=qJh1Q4Yg SHE  http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=hxDkq3rjX Po&feature=related http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=hxDkq3rjX Po&feature=related