Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MEDICINE FROM THE 17TH TO 20TH CENTURIES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the emergence and eventual dominance of the scientific world-view, particularly in Europe in the modern period. Topics include: the institutionalization of science, Newtonian physics and its implications, Enlightenment faith in reason, the statistical world-view, psychology, public health, eugenics, and the atomic bomb.