150.01. Issues in American Medical Practice. (3 units) Su, Fa, Wi, Sp, SS1, SS2, SS3. Prerequisites: Third- or fourth-year standing and consent of instructor. Seminar 18 hours.
Staff
Two-week non-clinical block devoted to reading, library research, discussions and presentations on the historical development of topics considered central to the practice of medicine: character of scientific medicine, role of technology, medical ethics and malpractice, corporate medicine, and the physician-patient relationship. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
170.01. Historical Perspectives in Medicine. (1-3 units) Fa, Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Lecture 1 hours. Seminar 1-2 hours.
Staff
Course intends to develop a sense of historical perspective and the ability to assess present issues in the light of past experience. Readings and visual aids will focus on the scientific and social aspects of the health sciences. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
170.02. Don't Kill the Messenger: Physicians and the Lay Audience. (1 units) Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: Medical students only; others with instructor approval. Seminar 3 hours.
E. Watkins
This course will examine the issue of translating medicine to the lay public whether through clinical work, interpersonal interactions with non-medical colleagues, or through writing about medicine. We will examine classic and the latest in writings about the profession from physician-authors, look at the history of medical public relations, and examine the reverse issue of how patients think about communicating to doctors. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
198. Supervised Study. (1-5 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp, SS1, SS2, SS3. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Project 3-15 hours.
Staff
Historical research and/or directed reading under supervision of a faculty member with approval of the department chairperson. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
200A. Introduction to the History of Health Sciences. (2-4 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Independent study 3 hours.
J. Tercier
General survey chronologically arranged from ancient times to 1800, with the primary focus on the Western world. This course presents the broad conceptual developments that in each period influenced the evolution of medical knowledge, the promotion of professional activities, and the experiences of illness and health. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
200B. Introduction to History of Health Sciences. (2-4 units) § Wi. Prerequisites: 200A. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Independent study 3 hours.
E. Watkins
Continuation of 200A. This course presents a general survey from 1800 to the present, with the primary focus on Europe and the US. Topics include: the rise of scientific medicine; the significance of germ theory; the development of medical therapeutics and technologies; the growth of health care institutions; the evolution and specialization of the medical profession. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
201A. Disease and the Social Order from the Black Death to SARS. (2-4 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Independent study 3 hours.
D. Porter
The course explores the comparative impact of disease upon European and North American societies. It will concentrate on the historical junctures at which diseases occurred; unravel the various levels of meaning which surrounded them in terms of their social, moral, and political interpretations; and analyze the patterns of response to them and discuss their historical consequences. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
204A. Research Methods in the History of Health Services. (4 units) § Sp. Prerequisites: HH200A and HH200B. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Independent study 3 hours.
E. Watkins
Introduction to medical historiography, research methodologies, and the craft of interpreting and writing medical history. Discussion of different historical approaches employed in writing history, including intellectual, social, cultural, feminist perspectives, and the sociology of knowledge. Survey of bibliographic tools and training in the methods of oral history. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
212. History of Medical Technologies. (4 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Independent Study 3 hours.
B. Dolan
This course surveys the historical development and social impact of various technological systems in the medical sciences. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
216. Psychiatry in the United States. (2-4 units) § Sp. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Independent Study 3 hours.
Staff
Course surveys US psychiatry from Victorian-era asylums to modern neuroscience. Topics include psychiatry's relation to neurology, psychology, and psychoanalysis; role of Jewish psychiatrists and psychoanalysts; therapeutic innovations (e.g. lobotomy, antidepressants) and the nature of medical progress; psychiatrists as public moralists and agents of social change; and studies of everything from human love to encounters with aliens. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
217. Interdisciplinary Readings: Anthropology, History, Sociology. (4 units) § Wi. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Independent Study 3 hours.
B. Dolan
This course examines different theories and research methods developed in anthropology, history and sociology to demonstrate how particular conceptual paradigms are adapted for use by different disciplines. Through comparative readings, this course traces the intellectual foundations of medical anthropology, history and sociology. Offered alternate years. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
218. The Pursuit of Racial Science since 1800. (4 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Ind. Study: 3 3 hours.
Staff
Emphasizing disputes within medicine, anthropology, and the biological sciences, a survey of racial science from 19th-century craniometrics to 21st-century genomics. Topics include the Darwinian controversy, Anglo-American eugenics, Boasian anthropology, Nazi medicine, evolutionary genetics, the linkage of “color” and “culture” in multiculturalist discourse, and the collection of racial data by public health authorities. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
219. Introduction to the History of American Medicine, 1900-1950. (4 units) § Sp. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Independent Study 3 hours.
R. Bartz
This course examines the history of American Medicine from 1900-1950. Topics include: the changing organization of medical practice, reforms in medical education, developments in medical science and technology, shifting ecology of disease, transformation of medical care institutions, patient and physician perspectives on health and illness, theories of disease and clinical therapeutics, debates over costs and quality, and the history of American health policy before Medicare and Medicaid. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
220. Selected Topics. (1-4 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Seminar 1-2 hours. Project 0-2 hours.
Staff
Seminar allowing individual staff or guest lecturers to present selected topics in the history of the health sciences based on their current research and publications. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
221. Biomedicine and Visual Culture. (4 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours.
B. Dolan, J. Tercier
This course examines objective and subjective interpretations of biomedical images. It ranges from radiological images intended for expert viewing (for diagnosis, legal testimony) to representations of disease and the body for a general public (documentaries, public health films, advertisements). Across this spectrum we seek to determine what gives images credibility and authority by looking at the technologies of their production and social diffusion, and how images give meaning to biomedicine. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
222. Modern Medicines: The History of Pharmaceuticals. (4 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours.
E. Watkins
This course engages the growing body of scholarship on the history of pharmaceuticals and the expansion of the pharmaceutical enterprise in the 20th and 21st centuries. It will consider social, cultural, political, economic, and ethical issues raised by the development, regulation, marketing, prescription, and use of modern medicines. It will also explore the changing relationships between academia and industry, clinical practice and biomedical research, doctors and patients, health and disease. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
224. Gender in Science and Medicine. (4 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Ind. Study: 3 3 hours.
E. Watkins
This course examines the role of gender in shaping scientific and medical careers and how gender has influenced the construction of scientific and medical theories, with attention to the history of theories about sex differences, considering how and why these theories were developed, how and why they underwent change, and how and why they reflected wider cultural concerns. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
250. Research. (1-8 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp, SS1, SS2, SS3. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Library 3-24 hours.
Staff
Supervised independent research, including presentations and criticism of research sources, methods, and papers. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
253. History of Alternative Medicine. (2-4 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Project 3 hours. Independent Study 3 hours.
B. Dolan
This course discusses the development and practices of "complementary and alternative medicine", from non-Western origins to modern herbalism. We examine the shift from holistic to laboratory medicine, the rise of environmental medicine, popular health movements, the evolution of homeopathic therapies, and the arrival of "the pharmaceutical century". The relationship between the medical marketplace and political economies of health is stressed. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
297. Special Study. (1-4 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp, SS1, SS2, SS3. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Term Paper 1-4 hours.
Staff
Supervised independent study intended to provide directed reading in subject matter not covered in scheduled seminar offerings. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
298. Thesis. (0 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp, SS1, SS2, SS3. Prerequisites: Advancement to candidacy and permission of the graduate adviser.
Staff
For graduate students engaged in writing the thesis for the master's degree. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
299. Dissertation. (0 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp, SS1, SS2, SS3. Prerequisites: Advancement to candidacy and permission of the graduate adviser.
Staff
For graduate students engaged in writing the dissertation for the PhD degree. ( department: HISTSOCMED )
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