| source Yale (X) |
level |
department Hist of Science, Hist of Med (X) |
TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Disease and healing in American history from colonial times to the present. Topics include the changing role of the physician, alternative healers and therapies, and the social impact of epidemics from smallpox to AIDS.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Relationships between medicine, health, and the media in the United States from 1870 to the present. The changing role of the media in shaping conceptions of the body; creating new diseases; influencing health and health policy; crafting the image of the medical profession; informing expectations of medicine and constructions of citizenship; and the medicalization of American life.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas Hu The development of modern medical institutions and practice examined in the context of economic, political, and social change in modern Britain. The impact of industrialization; effects of urbanization and demography on the practice and institutions of sanitation and preventive medicine; changing relationships between doctors and patients and between individuals and medical institutions; the emergence of scientific medicine, bacteriology, and parasitology.
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TTh 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu The origins of Western scientific culture and its connections with curiosity, ingenuity, and artisanal knowledge. Key topics in the historiography of early modern science, including the scientific revolution and the trial of Galileo.
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MW 1.30-2.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas Hu Themes in philosophy of science are used to illuminate and explicate important historical examples from the physical and biological sciences. Integration of philosophical analysis with historically grounded and contingently developed science.
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MW 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas Hu A history of modern biology, especially evolution, genetics, and molecular biology, within its social, economic, legal, and cultural context. Topics include eugenics and sterilization, the Scopes trial, contraception and abortion, new reproductive technologies, medical genetics, the Human Genome Project, and human cloning.
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T 7.00-8.50p Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Junior Seminar Permission of instructor required Discussion of recent literature in the history of science, medicine, and public health. Introduction to historiographic issues and to methods used in historical research and writing.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The development of X rays, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine. Their impact on diagnostic medicine, the legal system, and culture (high and low). Topics include the nature of invention - how new technologies appear; the economics of medicine in relation to technology; the role of warfare in invention; and the impact of these technologies on the arts.
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required The history of modern medicine in colonial South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan) and Southeast and East Asia (Malay Straits, Philippines, Sumatra, Hong Kong). Western medical institutions and practices; town planning and urbanization; theories and construction of diseases of the tropics; colonial discourse on race and disease; twentieth-century implementation of international health programs.
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Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An introduction to the history of astronomy from antiquity to modern times. The relationship between astronomy and astrology; visual representations in astronomy; astronomy, sociability, and gender.
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The social, cultural, and political history of American medicine from 1945 to 1960. The defeat of national health insurance; racism in health care; patient activism; the role of gender in defining medical professionalism and family health; the rise of atomic medicine; McCarthyism in medicine; and the polio vaccine trials and the making of science journalism.
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M 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Development of medical thought, disease theory, and surgical technique in ancient Egypt from early pharaonic times to the Greco-Roman period.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Readings directed by members of the faculty in selected topics in the history of science or the history of medicine. Subjects depend on the interests of students and faculty. Weekly conferences; required papers.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required
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HSHM 634 01 (10233) /HLTH170/AMST879/HSHM202/AMST247/HIST147/HIST914 Fall 2009 An exploration of the relationships among medicine, health, and the media in the United States from 1870 through the present. Focus on newspapers, magazines, professional journals, advertising, exhibitions, radio, film, television, and the Internet; and on interactions among researchers, health professions, medical and public health institutions, journalists, advocacy organizations, the state, industry, and the public. Topics include the changing role of the media in shaping conceptions of the body; creating new diseases; influencing health and health policy; crafting the image of the medical profession; informing expectations of medicine and constructions of citizenship; and the medicalization of American life.
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HSHM 639 01 (10779) /HIST913/HSHM448/HIST151J/WGSS448 Fall 2009 Examination of the social, cultural, and political history of American medicine, focusing on the period 1945?1960. Topics include the defeat of national health insurance; racism in health care, including ?separate but equal? hospital policy; patient activism especially among mental health and leprosy inmates; the role of gender in defining medical professionalism and family health; rise of atomic medicine; McCarthyism in medicine; and the polio vaccine trials and the making of science journalism.
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HSHM 648 01 (10781) /HSHM221/HIST910/HIST235 Fall 2009 This lecture course surveys the development of modern medical institutions and practice in the context of economic, political, and social change in modern Britain. It examines the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and demography effects on the practice and institutions of sanitation and preventive medicine; changing relationships between doctors and patients and between individuals and medical institutions such as hospitals and asylums; and the emergence of scientific medicine, bacteriology, and parasitology. Topics include the relationship between late Victorian science and eugenic theories of degeneration; the impact of the two World Wars on British medicine and surgery; and the establishment of the National Health Service in postwar Britain.
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HSHM 652 01 (13994) /HIST908 Fall 2009 This seminar explores the history of modern medicine in colonial Asia, including South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan) and southeast and east Asia (Malay Straits, Philippines, Sumatra, Hong Kong). It examines western medical institutions and practices such as colonial medical services; hospitals; town planning and urbanization; the theories and construction of diseases of the tropics such as tropical neurasthenia; colonial discourse on race and disease; and the implementation of international health programs in tropical countries in the twentieth century.
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HSHM 676 01 (10783) /HIST938 W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 This seminar explores the history of intellectual innovation and intellectual property protection in living matter. Focusing on the United States in world context, it examines arrangements outside the patent system as well as within it. Topics include agriculture, medicine, biotechnology, and law. May be taken as a reading or research course.
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HSHM 677 01 (14384) /HSHM277/AMST882/HIST939/AMST170/HIST177 MW 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 A history of modern biology, especially evolution, genetics, and molecular biology, within its social, economic, legal, and cultural context. Topics include eugenics and sterilization, the Scopes trial, contraception and abortion, new reproductive technologies, medical genetics, the Human Genome Project, and human cloning.
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HSHM 701 01 (10230) /HIST930 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 An examination of the variety of approaches to the social and cultural history of medicine. Readings are drawn from recent literature in the field, sampling writings on health care, illness experiences, public health, and medical cultures in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia from antiquity to the twentieth century. Topics include the role of gender, class, ethnicity, race, religion, and region in the experience of health care and sickness; the intersection of lay and professional understandings of the body; and the role of the marketplace in shaping professional identities and patient expectations.
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HSHM 710 01 (10786) /HIST921 W 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 Exploration of the methods and debates in the social studies of science, technology, and medicine. This course covers the history of the field and its current intellectual, social, and political positioning. It emphasizes the debates on constructivism and relativism, and provides critical tools to address the relationships among science, technology, medicine, and society.
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HSHM 730 01 (13966) /HIST905 Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 Readings on the interactions of medicine and disease with the social, economic, cultural, political, and military histories of the Caribbean region from 1492 to the present. Topics include the Columbian exchange and demographic collapse; the connections between race, slavery, and disease; the role of disease in the loss and gain of empire; the influence of U.S. public health policies; and the Cuban health care system since the Revolution.
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