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3.00 Credits
Modern U.S. social thought. Debates over progress, science, nationalism, race, and economy. Ideas in their cultural context. Popular as well as elite thinkers.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 204). Scientific, social, and cultural factors influencing the rise of modern medicine. Europe and the U.S., 1750 to the present. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 204 prior to fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 205). Women as patients and healers in the U.S. from 1750 to the present. Topics include women’s diseases and treatments; medical constructions of gender, sexuality; childbirth, birth control, abortion; midwives, nurses, and doctors. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 205 prior to fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 248). The historical divergences between medicine in China and the West. Readings in Chinese medical classics, including the Inner Cannon of the Yellow Emperor and early herbal manuals. Chinese medicine’s encounter with Western medicine in the twentieth century; the creation of "Traditional Chinese Medicine" in the PRC and the emergence of Chinese medicine as "alternative medicine" in the U.S. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 248 prior to fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 206). (Also listed as Anthropology 260) Concepts of the human body from historical and cross-cultural perspectives. Exploration of experiences, representations, and medical theories of the body in birth, death, health, and illness in Western and non-Western societies. Comparison of methodologies of anthropology and history. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 206 prior to fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
How infectious diseases shape history. European and American responses to disease from the medieval Black Death to HIV/AIDS. Offered on a graded basis only.
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3.00 Credits
Disparities in the health care of African Americans, the training of black professionals, and the role of black medical institutions. The intersection between black civic involvement and health care delivery; the disproportionate impact of disease and epidemics within the African American population.
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3.00 Credits
The consolidation and rise to prominence of a modern psychological perspective on human nature, motivation, desire, and need in the twentieth century. Freud and the debut of therapeutic culture. Dreams, sexuality, interiority, gendered selves. Psychologies of affluence, the invention of identity, the new narcissism, and perspectives on managerial effectiveness. The virtues and liabilities of the twentieth-century expressive self. No credit for students who have completed 115F section 15.
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3.00 Credits
Debates over human trait modification through recent advances in pharmaceuticals, bioelectrics, and genetics. Long-term social, cultural, and moral consequences.
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3.00 Credits
Social, cultural, intellectual, and artistic responses to the challenges posed by modern science and technology from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Offered on a graded basis only.
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