170.02

Don't Kill the Messenger: Physicians and the Lay Audience

(1 units)

Winter, Spring

Instructor(s):E. Watkins Prerequisite(s): None

Restrictions:Medical students only; others with instructor approval. Activities: Seminar: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

200A

Introduction to the History of Health Sciences

(2 - 4 units)

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Fall

Instructor(s):Staff Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

200B

Introduction to History of Health Sciences

(2 - 4 units)

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Winter

Instructor(s):E. Watkins Prerequisite(s): 200A

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

201A

Disease and the Social Order from the Black Death to SARS

(2 - 4 units)

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Fall

Instructor(s):D. Porter Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

204A

Research Methods in the History of Health Services

(4 units)

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Spring

Instructor(s):E. Watkins Prerequisite(s): HH200A and HH200B

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

212

History of Medical Technologies

(4 units)

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Fall

Instructor(s):B. Dolan Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

This course surveys the historical development and social impact of various technological systems in the medical sciences. (DAHSM)

216

Psychiatry in the United States

(2 - 4 units)

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Spring

Instructor(s):Staff Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

217

Interdisciplinary Readings: Anthropology, History, Sociology

(4 units)

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Winter

Instructor(s):B. Dolan Prerequisite(s): None

Restrictions:None Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

218

The Pursuit of Racial Science since 1800

(4 units)

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Fall

Instructor(s):Staff Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

219

Introduction to the History of American Medicine, 1900-1950

(4 units)

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Spring

Instructor(s):R. Bartz Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

220

Selected Topics

(0.0 units)

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Fall, Winter, Spring

Instructor(s):E. Watkins Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor

Restrictions:none

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. (HLTHSC PRG)

221

Biomedicine and Visual Culture

(4 units)

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Fall

Instructor(s):B. Dolan Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

222

Modern Medicines: The History of Pharmaceuticals

(4 units)

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Fall

Instructor(s):E. Watkins Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

224

Gender in Science and Medicine

(4 units)

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Fall

Instructor(s):E. Watkins Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

225

History of Occupational and Environmental Health

(2 - 4 units)

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Winter, Spring

Instructor(s):P. Blanc Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 0 - 6 hours

This course examines objective and subjective interpretations of original source material and commentary/synthesis within the history of occupational and educational health. This will include key pre-Industrial Revolution texts (in particular Ramazzini) and material central to the 19th century hygienic movement particularly in the UK (Thackrah). Selected 20th century texts will cover major disease outbreaks that impacted more recent medical & general public perceptions of industrial disease. (ANTHROPOL)

250

Research

(1 - 8 units)

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Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Instructor(s):Staff Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor

Activities: Library: 3 - 24 hours

Supervised independent research, including presentations and criticism of research sources, methods, and papers. (DAHSM)

253

History of Alternative Medicine

(2 - 4 units)

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Spring

Instructor(s):Staff Prerequisite(s): None.

Restrictions:None. Activities: Lecture: 2 hours, Project: 3 hours, Independent Study: 3 hours

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. (DAHSM)

255

History of the Social Sciences and Population Health Policy

(4.0 units)

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Fall

Instructor(s):D. Porter

Restrictions:None Activities: Lecture: 10 hours

The goal of the course is to provide students with the analytical skills and historical knowledge to evaluate the role of the social sciences in determining changes in public health policy and practice from the eighteenth century to contemporary times in comparative national and international contexts. The course will offer the opportunity to investigate how these changes impacted the political and social status of health citizenship throughout the period. (ANTHROPOL)

297

Special Study

(1 - 4 units)

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Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Instructor(s):Staff Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor

Supervised independent study intended to provide directed reading in subject matter not covered in scheduled seminar offerings. (DAHSM)

299

Dissertation

(0 units)

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Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Instructor(s):Staff Prerequisite(s): Advancement to candidacy and permission of the graduate adviser

For graduate students engaged in writing the dissertation for the PhD degree. (DAHSM)