Health, Medicine, and Science in America, 1600-Present. 

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An examination of American medicine and science from the colonial era through the present from the perspective of people of color, immigrants, women, and LQBTQ+ people. This course investigates how different groups of Americans understood and experienced disease, illness, and disability; explores how diseases were racialized and gendered, how science was used to establish and reinforce racial inequalities, and how access healthcare has been based upon race, class, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability; and identifies health activism in social movements.