HOS 594 - History of Medicine - Medicine and the Making of the Modern Self

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Princeton University

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Description:

An exploration of the intersection between medicine, philosophy, and the human sciences, examining how the discourse of medicine and the medical sciences contributed to the formation of the modern self by acting on bodies and minds in health and disease. Surveying key moments in the history of medicine, we will examine, amongst others, how electricity redefined the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate, how the rise of germ theory contributed to changes in the relationship between the individual and society, and how the Freudian revolution challenged the autonomy of the bourgeois subject.

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0.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.princeton.edu

Phone Number:

(609) 258-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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