Sep 19, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

HIST 251 - (CH) History of Medicine

3 cr.
In this course, we explore the changing intellectual economic, institutional and cultural relationships that have characterized medicine from antiquity to the present. We consider the education of practitioners, locations of healing, and expectations that people had of medicine as ideas about the body and illness shifted with new discoveries and theories about health and disease.