Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN THE UNITED STATES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course reviews changes in health and medicine since the 18th century. Inventions from imaging technologies to antibiotics have changed the experience of disease, while emerging epidemics, health disparities, and challenges of end of life care illustrate the limits of medicine and the importance of social conditions to health.