Healing the World

Harvard FAS

How have people understood and managed human health in the past? This class takes an interdisciplinary approach to the long history of how people have struggled and coped with illness and death. We will move from patients to healers to societies to ask: How have people understood and managed human health and disease in the past? How have they judged individual and societal responsibility for caregiving? How might we think with and against these historical examples to imagine health care…