STS 1451 - [Body, Mind, and Health: Historical Perspectives for Future Professionals]

(HB) (CA-AS)

Summer. Not offered: 2023-2024. Next offered: 2024-2025. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Open to: high school students.

J. Lieberman.

A course in the social history of medicine that examines the ways in which medicine and its practitioners have impacted-and been impacted by-American social, political, cultural, and economic development. The course focuses on the changing nature of disease, the medical profession past and present as well as historical and contemporary issues in public health.