History 382: History of Western Medicine

Dr. Eve Buckley

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Phone: (302) 831-0793

Office: 123 John Munroe Hall

Office Hours: Mon. and Wed. 11:00-12:00

Course Syllabus

Midterm essay topic

Final exam

Lecture 1: Intro & critiques of “biomedicine”

Lecture 2: Disease and human history

Lectures 3 & 4: Humoral medicine in ancient Greece & Rome

Lecture 5: 16^th c. Renaissance anatomy—Vesalius

Lecture 6: 17^th c. Enlightenment physiology—Harvey

Lecture 7: London plague, 1665; rise of clinical medicine

Lecture 9: Smallpox inoculation in 18^th c. U.S.

Lecture 10: Laboratory revolution, 19^th c. medicine

Lecture 11: Alternative medicine in the 19^th c.

Lecture 12: Filth theory: 19^th c. urban & domestic hygiene

Lecture 13: Filth theory continued, & 19^th surgical advances

Lecture 14: Germ theory, 1860s-90s: Pasteur, Lister, Koch

Lecture 15: “Bacteriomania,” immigrants & pub hlth authority

Lecture 16: “Medicalizing” everyday life

Lecture 17: Medical professionalization, early 20^th c.

Lecture 18: Female physicians

Lecture 19: Nursing as “women’s work;” rise of hospitals

Lecture 20: Medical technology & the rise of hospitals, 20^th c.

Lecture 21: Pharmaceuticals & government regulation

Lecture 22: Tuskegee syphilis study

Lecture 23: Polio vaccine, March of Dimes

Lecture 24: Late 20^th c. U.S. health policy

Lecture 25: Americans as health consumers, late 20^th c.

Lecture 26: Health & disease in a global economy