Tuesday, February 09, 2010

What's the diagnosis?

The reading for Friday is a description of the plague of Athens, written in 431BC by Thucydides in The History of the Peloponnesian War. If you click on the link it will take you to a copy of the piece. The web page begins with chapter VI, but you can skip down to chapter VII (unless you would like to read about the war). If you cannot find the right section, press ctrl-F and type in plague. The challenge is to make a diagnosis. You will have two minutes to make your case for the diagnosis of your choice. We will then have a chat about how to manage the situation.

MJM

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