HIST 374
American Medical History Spring 2015
Division II
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This course will cover major themes in American medical history and historiography from the colonial period through the twentieth century. Every aspect of American “medicine” underwent tremendous transition during the period we will study. Medical education, the medical profession, and notions about cures and care changed fundamentally, as did ideas about the nature of illness itself. Our course of study, in addition to charting ways in which the practice of medicine in America has developed, will make an equal effort to understand how medicine has changed and affected American society. Topics that we will investigate include cholera, TB, and childbirth in American society, as well as other medical phenomena.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 25
Expected: 15-25
Class#: 3267
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on class participation, two short papers, reading quiz, and a final research paper
Prerequisites: none; open to first-year students with instructor's permission
Distributions: Division II
Attributes: HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada
HIST Group G Electives - Global History
PHLH History of Medicine
SCST Elective Courses

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