Description
This course series looks at the role of doctors, patients, diseases and society's reaction to them over time and asks how medicine, disease and health have been motors for change. The course encourages its participants to understand how contemporary medicine differs from, but is indelibly marked by its past. By directed useof primary and seconary sources it introduces participants to the methods and tools of research in the history of medicine and encourges the critical analysis of differing historical interpretations, including the participant's own.
History of Medicine I - Culture and Science in the History of American Medicine provides an overview of U.S. medical history in the 19th and 20th centuries, and introduces the student to various approaches that historians and other historically-minded scholars have used to understand the complex relatonships between medicine, science, and culture. Of particular focus will be the extent to which medicine is or has been scientific; t