AP/HIST 3880 6.0: Medicine and North American Society in Historical Perspective

AP/HIST 3880 6.00

Medicine and North American Society in Historical Perspective

Cross-listed with: AP/SOSC 3090 6.0

Responsible Unit: Department of Social Science
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This course explores North American social and cultural responses to disease. It offers a critical, historical evaluation of the ways in which science accorded medicine a new intellectual and institutional status that transformed explanations for disease and patterns of healing/caregiving.