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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Nov 25, 2024
 
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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SOC 1488 - HISTORY MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides an overview of the social history of medicine from prehistory to the present. Focuses on the emergence of medical institutions, education, theories, practices and the orthodox and irregular medical sects. Describes the growth of the separate disciplines of nursing, pharmacy and public health. Examines the impact of socioeconomic factors, religions and war on the evolution of medical science. Discusses the changing roles of government in the development of the American health care system.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies


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