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Subject: History (HIST)
CRN: 29179
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: McNeely Hall 118
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Sci, Med, Soc (SMDS) Minor
This course explores how people have thought about bodies, illness, and medical treatment over the last several centuries, both in the American context and in other parts of the world. Although the geographic and temporal coverage of this course might vary depending on the instructor’s expertise, we will investigate the history of several different medical epistemologies before narrowing in on the gradually developed hegemony that allopathic or Western medicine came to hold within the United States and Europe. In the American context, we will inquire about indigenous concepts of health and healing, pandemics and disease during the colonial era, the proliferation of medical disciplines during the nineteenth century, and the professionalization and privatization of health care in the twentieth and twenty first centuries that give rise to the disparities in access and outcomes that we see today. Prerequisite: One 100-level history course.
4 Credits