History of Medicine

3 Units

This course treats selected topics in the history of medicine, with an emphasis on social and cultural history. Focusing on the modern period, we examine illnesses, patients, and healers, with attention to the ways sickness and medicine touch larger questions of politics, social relations and identity. Offered as HSTY 395 and HSTY 495 . Counts as a Human Diversity & Commonality course. Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course. Prereq: Graduate student standing.