Recitation sections meet for one hour each week. They are not included in the course calendar.
Course calendar.
| Lec # |
TOPICS |
READINGs AND PAPERS |
KEY DATES |
| 1 |
Introduction: Disease, Medicine, and Society |
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| Part 1: Changing Patterns of Health and Disease |
| 2 |
Health and Disease Before Columbus |
Trans-Atlantic Epidemiology |
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| 3 |
Virgin Soil Epidemics |
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| 4 |
The Health of Colonists |
Health and the Environment |
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| 5 |
Disease and the Environment |
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| 6 |
Urbanization and Public Health |
Urbanization and Health |
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| 7 |
The Decline of Tuberculosis |
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| 8 |
Epidemiological Transitions and Health Disparities |
Epidemiological Transitions |
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| 9 |
The Determinants of Health and Disease |
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| 10 |
Debate: Disease History and Health Policy |
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Paper 1 due |
| Part 2: Medicine and Society |
| 11 |
American Indian Medicine |
Colonial Therapeutics |
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| 12 |
Colonial Medical Theory and Practice |
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| 13 |
Inocutation and Vaccination |
Medicine in the 18th century |
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| 14 |
Self Help and Heroic Medicine |
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| 15 |
Medical Education |
Creating a Medical Profession |
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| 16 |
The Rise of Hospitals |
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Paper 2 due |
| 17 |
Race, Gender, and Medicine |
Scientific Racism/Sexism |
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| 18 |
Psychiatry and Mental Health |
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| Part 3: The Rise of Modern Medicine |
| 19 |
Anesthesia and the Rise of Surgery |
Therapeutic Revolutions |
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| 20 |
Germ Theory and the Therapeutic Revolution |
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| 21 |
Public Health Politics I: Plague in Chinatown |
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Paper 3 due |
| 22 |
Medical Technology and the Modern Hospital |
Medical Technologies |
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| 23 |
Specialization and Medical Education |
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| 24 |
Public Health Politics II: HIV/AIDS |
Public Health Revisited |
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| 25 |
Health Care Policy: Access and Cost |
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| 26 |
Disease and Society in the 21st Century |
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Paper 4 due |