AP/SOSC 3090 6.00
Medicine and North American Society in Historical Perspective
This course explores people’s conceptions of health, their experiences of disease, illness and disease, focusing on North America from the time of contact between Europeans and Aboriginal peoples to the present. The course draws on several disciplines, including history, anthropology and sociology, as well as medicine and allied sciences. However, particular emphasis is placed on history as a discipline. Lectures and tutorials will allow students to consider the ways in which history is created and used and the various types of documents that historians draw upon to reconstruct the past. Resources used in the course will help students to develop critical research skills with respect to both primary and secondary materials.