Recitation sections meet for one hour each week. They are not included in the course calendar.
Course calendar.| Lec # | TOPICS | READINGs AND PAPERS | KEY DATES |
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| 1 | Introduction: Disease, Medicine, and Society | | |
| Part 1: Changing Patterns of Health and Disease |
| 2 | Health and Disease Before Columbus | Trans-Atlantic Epidemiology | |
| 3 | Virgin Soil Epidemics | | |
| 4 | The Health of Colonists | Health and the Environment | |
| 5 | Disease and the Environment | | |
| 6 | Urbanization and Public Health | Urbanization and Health | |
| 7 | The Decline of Tuberculosis | | |
| 8 | Epidemiological Transitions and Health Disparities | Epidemiological Transitions | |
| 9 | The Determinants of Health and Disease | | |
| 10 | Debate: Disease History and Health Policy | | Paper 1 due |
| Part 2: Medicine and Society |
| 11 | American Indian Medicine | Colonial Therapeutics | |
| 12 | Colonial Medical Theory and Practice | | |
| 13 | Inocutation and Vaccination | Medicine in the 18th century | |
| 14 | Self Help and Heroic Medicine | | |
| 15 | Medical Education | Creating a Medical Profession | |
| 16 | The Rise of Hospitals | | Paper 2 due |
| 17 | Race, Gender, and Medicine | Scientific Racism/Sexism | |
| 18 | Psychiatry and Mental Health | | |
| Part 3: The Rise of Modern Medicine |
| 19 | Anesthesia and the Rise of Surgery | Therapeutic Revolutions | |
| 20 | Germ Theory and the Therapeutic Revolution | | |
| 21 | Public Health Politics I: Plague in Chinatown | | Paper 3 due |
| 22 | Medical Technology and the Modern Hospital | Medical Technologies | |
| 23 | Specialization and Medical Education | | |
| 24 | Public Health Politics II: HIV/AIDS | Public Health Revisited | |
| 25 | Health Care Policy: Access and Cost | | |
| 26 | Disease and Society in the 21st Century | | Paper 4 due |