HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN MEDICINE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the social, cultural, and political factors that have shaped the health care system and health institutions in 20th century America. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the changing interactions of patients, physicians, nurses, and other health care personnel over the last century. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe how the experience of illness was transformed in the 20th century, and the changing role of technologies, pharmaceuticals, and medical research. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Understand the ways in which assumptions about race, gender, and socio-economic factors affect the experience of illness and health outcomes over the long twentieth century. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the social, cultural, and political factors that have shaped the health care system and health institutions in 20th century America. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the changing interactions of patients, physicians, nurses, and other health care personnel over the last century. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe how the experience of illness was transformed in the 20th century, and the changing role of technologies, pharmaceuticals, and medical research. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Understand the ways in which assumptions about race, gender, and socio-economic factors affect the experience of illness and health outcomes over the long twentieth century. Audience: Undergraduate