SOC/CULT HIST HEALTH/DISEASE

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An examination of the interplay among history, society, culture, science, and ways of healing. Special attention on case studies that provide insight into practitioners and lay people's understanding of illness; the changing definition of disease in different historical contexts and cultures; the role of state policies and medical interventions in the quest for public health the associations and metaphors some disease inspired in literature. Formerly: History of Western Medicine.