History of Medicine: Bodies, Disease, Health

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: Second-year standing; or permission of the Department This course surveys medical knowledge and practice from antiquity to the present. It introduces the history of medicine as a field and provides a large-scale historical approach to thinking about medicine, bodies, and health as phenomena that change over time and are shaped by their contexts. The foundational goals of the course include introducing fundamental questions and methods in the history of medicine, and engendering nuanced, critical, and contextualized understandings of medicine's complex role in society. (Format: Lecture/Seminar 3 Hours) (Exclusion: HIST 3991 History of Medicine)