History of Western Medicine, Disease and Public Health I

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This course focuses on the pre-modern period of Western medicine, primarily in the Near East and Europe, from about 3500 BCE to c.1700 CE, and emphasizes views of medicine and its practitioners that developed over that period. Special emphasis will be given to the connections between medicine and religion, nature, and folklore, as well as how these connections developed through cultural contact by trade, migration, and conquest. The course includes new material, traditional and digitized learning objects, and emphasizes cultural and social awareness, reasoned analysis of primary sources, and the development of critical thinking and communication skills.