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Recitation sections meet for one hour each week. They are not included in the course calendar.


Lec #TOPICSREADINGs AND PAPERSKEY DATES
1Introduction: Disease, Medicine, and Society
Part 1: Changing Patterns of Health and Disease
2Health and Disease Before ColumbusTrans-Atlantic Epidemiology
3Virgin Soil Epidemics
4The Health of ColonistsHealth and the Environment
5Disease and the Environment
6Urbanization and Public HealthUrbanization and Health
7The Decline of Tuberculosis
8Epidemiological Transitions and Health DisparitiesEpidemiological Transitions
9The Determinants of Health and Disease
10Debate: Disease History and Health PolicyPaper 1 due
Part 2: Medicine and Society
11American Indian MedicineColonial Therapeutics
12Colonial Medical Theory and Practice
13Inocutation and VaccinationMedicine in the 18th century
14Self Help and Heroic Medicine
15Medical EducationCreating a Medical Profession
16The Rise of HospitalsPaper 2 due
17Race, Gender, and MedicineScientific Racism/Sexism
18Psychiatry and Mental Health
Part 3: The Rise of Modern Medicine
19Anesthesia and the Rise of SurgeryTherapeutic Revolutions
20Germ Theory and the Therapeutic Revolution
21Public Health Politics I: Plague in ChinatownPaper 3 due
22Medical Technology and the Modern HospitalMedical Technologies
23Specialization and Medical Education
24Public Health Politics II: HIV/AIDSPublic Health Revisited
25Health Care Policy: Access and Cost
26Disease and Society in the 21st CenturyPaper 4 due

 








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