Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - January/February 2016 - (Page 20)

EPIC EP WELLCOME LIBRARY, LONDON. CREATIVE COMMONS (CC BY 4.0) Studying the I CREDIT MY LOVE OF HISTORY TO MY FIRST COURSE AT CTY, THE MIDDLE AGES. I WAS 11 YEARS OLD AND I WAS HOOKED. AFTER THAT, I WAS STRICTLY A "HUMANITIES KID" AT CTY, TAKING ONLY WRITING, HISTORY, AND PHILOSOPHY COURSES. HOWEVER, FOR MY FIFTH AND FINAL SUMMER AT CTY, I DECIDED TO STRETCH MYSELF BY TAKING A COURSE THAT COMBINED THE HUMANITIES WITH SCIENCE: HISTORY OF DISEASE. .COM/D ISTOCK D ARKBIR 77 O 20 imagine ur instructor, Dr. Ted Blaisdell (better known as Dr. Ted), became famous for singing "Disease!" at the top of his lungs to call students to class from across the quad. When our class first assembled in the classroom, which was in the college's student health center, Dr. Ted explained the course in a way that summed it up perfectly: "If you expect this to be a science course you will be disappointed, and if you expect it to be a history course you will also be disappointed." Over three weeks, we examined diseases from both cultural and biological perspectives-making it an interdisciplinary course that disappointed no one. Literary Disease Detectives We began by learning the basics of infectious diseases, from DNA and RNA to how they were transmitted and affected different parts of the body. The first disease we studied was the Plague of Athens, which scourged Greece during the Peloponnesian War. Although the disease that caused the plague has not been definitively identified, we tried to determine what it might have been Jan/Feb 2016

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - January/February 2016

Big Picture
In My Own Words CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.
My Summer of Medicine Three ways of exploring healthcare
Teens Target: Public Health How high school students are solving real-world public health problems
Slowing the Race Addressing antibiotic resistance
For the Greater Good Majoring in public health
Epic Epidemics Studying History of Disease at CTY
Teen Health is Public Health Interview with Beth Marshall, Associate Director, Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Building Bridges Addressing health disparities through service
Becoming a Disease Detective Behind the scenes at the CDC
Finding Light in the Darkness Astrophysics at UCSC SIP
Girls Who Code Paving the way to careers in tech
Selected Opportunities and Resources
Off the Shelf Review of Iris Chang’s The Chinese in America
Word Wise
Exploring Career Options Interview with epidemiologist Christine Scott-Waldron, M.S.P.H.
One Step Ahead Summer in limbo
Planning Ahead for College Is medical school in your future?
Students Review: Tufts University
Creative Minds Imagine Essay contest winners
Mark Your Calendar
Knossos Games

Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - January/February 2016