HIST-2120 The Doctor Is In: Hlth & Med in U.S. Hist
(SELF & SOCIETY, ENGAGING DIFFERENCE) This course focuses on the complex interplay of disease and medicine in the context of U.S. culture and society over the last three centuries. Topics may include the evolution of public health interventions, biomedical research, and clinical practice; folk remedies and popular understandings of health; infectious and chronic diseases; links between landscape, health, and inequality; gender and reproductive health; and the colonial and transnational dimensions of public health and medicine.