HST-H483 Death, Disease, Healing- U.S. History
Investigates how Americans have understood and responded to health, illness, and death from the eighteenth century to the present. Examines interactions among patients, healers (orthodox and heterodox), the medical and scientific professions, business, and government. Explores the effects of scientific and technological advancements, industrialization, urbanization, immigration, war, and social movements on the nation's moral and political economies of health, and on evolving ideas about bodily integrity and autonomy, linked to historical relations of gender, race, class, and sexuality. This is an honors-level course.
Prerequisite
Sophomore status required. CAS Honors students only.
Offered
Ocasionally