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Fall 2008 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES HSHM 215a, PUBLIC HEALTH IN AMERICA, 1793-2000. Naomi Rogers, MW 1:30-2:20 A survey of public health in America from the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 to AIDS and breast cancer activism at the end of the past century. Focusing on medicine and the state, topics include quarantines, medical and social welfare failures and successes, the experiences of healers and patients, and organized medicine and its critics. Also HIST 140a HSHM 239, CULTURES AND HISTORIES OF MIND. Jamie Cohen-Cole, MW 10:30-11:20 The development of the mind sciences in Europe and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from the invention of psychoanalysis and the creation of experimental psychology as a scientific discipline to recent developments in evolutionary psychology, psychopharmacology, and cognitive neuroscience. The mind sciences as they developed conceptual frameworks and methodological tools, their consolidation as disciplines, and their relationship with the cultures in which they formed. HSHM 328a or b, METHODS AND LITERATURE IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE.
Introduction to recent literature in the history of science, medicine, and public health, to historiographic issues, and to methods used in historical research and writing. Members of the faculty in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine visit on a rotating basis to introduce the variety of approaches to the field. (Formerly HSHM 428a or b) HSHM 418a,DISEASE AND SETTLEMENT IN THE TROPICS. Nandini Bhattacharya, Th 3:30-5:20 This course will involve a critical analysis of the histories of medicine, colonization, settlement, race and habitation in the European tropical empires. Topics will include pre-colonial perceptions of the non-European world, European debates around acclimatization and settlement in the tropical colonies, European concerns about racial degeneration and the ecologies of tropical diseases. HSHM 426a, HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY. Ivano Dal Prete, Th 1:30-3:20 This course offers an introduction to the history of astronomy from the antiquity to modern times. Topics include: the relationships between astronomy and astrology; visual representations in astronomy; astronomy, sociability and gender. HSHM 431a, BODIES, MACHINES, AND SHOWS: ENLIGHTENMENT, SCIENCE, AND SPECTACLE. Paola Bertucci, W 2:30-4:20 This seminar draws on primary and secondary sources to consider major themes and events regarding the history of children’s health care (broadly defined to include not just physical and emotional health but also cognitive and social development) in the United States. Also HIST 450a UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE COURSES HSHM 242a/HSHM 640a, MOLECULES, LIFE, AND DISEASE IN THE 20TH CENTURY. Bruno Strasser, MW 11:35-12:25 This course explores the transformation of the life sciences in the 20th century. It focuses on the rise of molecular biology and its understanding of life and disease. It will show how and why the molecular vision of life has achieved such a high level of scientific authority and social legitimacy. It will emplasize the relationship of this transformation to broader intellectual, social, cultural, and political changes.
GRADUATE COURSES HSHM 701a, INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH. John Harley Warner, M 1:30-3:20 An examination of the variety of approaches to the social and cultural history of medicine and public health. Readings are drawn from recent literature in the field, sampling writings on health care, illness experiences, and medical cultures in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia from antiquity to the twentieth century. Topics include the role of gender, class, ethnicity, race, region, and religion in the experience of health care and sickness; the intersection of lay and professional understandings of the body; and the role of the marketplace in shaping professional identities and patient expectations. HSHM 706a, COLLECTING NATURE. Bruno Strasser, T 1:30-3:20 This course focuses on the role of collections and collectors in the production of natural knowledge between the sixteenth century and the present. From wonder cabinets to electronic databases, collections of natural objects and facts of nature have been crucial to the development of science, medicine, and the state. The course explores court patronage and colonial power, amateur collections and national museums, gift exhancge and commodity trade, individual property and collective authorship, secrecy regimes and public disclosures. HSHM 715a, SCIENCE AND TRAVEL: COLLECTIONS, EXPLORATIONS, AND NETWORKS. Paola Bertucci, Th 9:25-11:15 This course explores the role of travel in the making of scientific knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It focuses on museums and cabinets of curiosities; voyages of explorations and scientific journeys; correspondence networks, espionage, and colonialism; scientific imagery and fictional travels. HSHM 727a, EPIDEMICS, STATE, AND MEDICINE IN THE COLONIES, 1860-1960. Nandini Bhattacharya, T 9:25-11:15 An exploration of the trajectories of state intervention in medical policies and public health in British, French, and Dutch colonies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Themes include the theoretical premises of public health in the colonies, the location of medicine within colonial governance, and the indigenous cultural and political responses to these policies in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The focus will be on such institutions as lock hospitals, prisons, asylums, and urban governments, as well as epidemics like cholera, plague, and smallpox. SPRING, 2009 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES HSHM 220b, COLONIAL MEDICINE TO GLOBAL HEALTH. Nandini Bhattacharya, MW 11:35-12:25 An introduction to medicine and colonization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on South Asia and Africa, especially India, China, Kenya and Uganda, Sudan, Nigeria, and South Africa. It will include a broad overview of colonization, encounters with indigenous cultures and practices of medicine, the impact of war on medicine in non-western colonies, and the interventions of Western colonial governments and Western missionaries in South Asia and colonial Africa. It will include trajectories of governance and healthcare and cultures of consumption in South Asia and in South Africa after decolonization. HSHM 235, EPIDEMICS AND SOCIETY IN THE WEST SINCE 1600. Frank Snowden, TTh 9:25-10:15 A study of the impact of epidemic diseases such as bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, and AIDS on society, public health, and the medical profession in comparative and international perspective. Topics include popular culture and mass hysteria, the mortality revolution, urban renewal and rebuilding, sanitation, the germ theory of disease, the emergence of scientific medicine, and debates over the biomedical model of disease. HSHM 240, CURIOSITY AND NATURAL INQUIRY. Paola Bertucci, TTh 11:35-12:25 The origins of Western scientific culture and its connections with curiosity, ingenuity, and artisanal knowledge. Key topics in the historiography of early modern science, including the scientific revolution and the trial of Galileo. HSHM 413b, X-RAY VISIONS: MEDICAL IMAGING SINCE 1895. Bettyann Kevles, W 1:30-3:20 An examination of the development of X rays, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine. Tehir impact on diagnostic medicine, the legal system, and culture (high and low). Topics include the nature of invention—how new technologies appear; the economics of medicine in relation to technology; the role of warfare in invention; and the impact of these technologies on the arts. HSHM 427b, SCIENTIFIC PERSONAE. Jamie Cohen-Cole, T 1:30-3:20 What it has meant to be a scientist in Europe and America from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. Character traits, such as objectivity, rationality, wealth, and masculinity, that may have given individuals authority to speak truth about nature. Science as a career; the relationship of the scientist to broader society.
UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE COURSES HSHM 201b/HSHM 631b, THE CULTURES OF WESTERN MEDICINE: A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. John HarleyWarner, MW 10:30-11:20 A survey of medical thought, practice, institutions, and practitioners from classical antiquity to the present. Changing concepts of health and disease in Europe and America explored in their social, cultural, economic, scientific, technological, and ethical contexts. Also HIST 233b/HIST 937b HSHM 436b/HSHM 641b, COMPUTERS AND CYBERNETICS. Jamie Cohen-Cole , T 7:00-8:50 The development of cybernetics, information theory, and computer science. Relationships among the cybernetic and computer sciences, and academy, society, and politics in the culture of the Cold War. HSHM 447b/HSHM 680b, HISTORY OF CHINESE SCIENCE. William Summers, Th 1:30-3:20 A study of the major themes in Chinese scientific thinking from antiquity to the twentieth century. Emphasis on non-Western concepts of nature and the development of science in China, East-West scientific exchanges, and China's role in modern science. GRADUATE COURSES HSHM 702b, INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Paola Bertucci, W 1:30-3:20 Study of secondary literature, recent and older, in the history of the physical and life sciences from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. Students acquire familiarity both with the road map of the development of science in general and of its major branches over this period, and an acquaintance with various approaches that historians have followed in interpreting these events. Also HIST 931b HSHM 736b, HEALTH POLITICS, BODY POLITICS. Naomi Rogers, T 9:25-11:15 A reading seminar on struggles to control, pathologize, and normalize human bodies, with a particular focus on science, medicine, and the state, both in North America and in a broader global health context. Topics include colonialism and prostitution; repression and regulation of birth control; the teaching of sex education; the public celebration and denial of sexual difference; politics of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS; public health and legal efforts to define and restrict abortion; the pathologizing and identity politics of trans-gendered people; and the development and regulation of artificial insemination and other methods of reproductive technology. HSHM 740b, THE CULTURES OF AMERICAN MEDICINE SINCE 1800. John Harley Warner, T 1:30-3:20 Reading and discussion of the scholarly literature on medicine in the nineteenth-and twentieth-century U.S. Themes include the moral, social, political, aesthetic, and epistemological grounding of orthodox and alternative cultural authority; the role of the marketplace in shaping professional identities and patient expectations; gender, ethnicity, race, religion, class, and region in the construction and management of illness and in the production and circulation of medical beliefs; interplay between lay and professional understanding of the body; nationalism, citizenship, and colonialism; and representations of medical institutions, practitioners, and practices in visual media, including film. May be taken as a research seminar with the permission of the instructor. Previous Course Offerings FALL 2006 HSHM 635a, Science, Arms, and the State . Daniel Kevles.
M 1.30-3.20 HSHM 637a, Race and Medicine in America, 1800-2000. Susan Lederer. Th 1.30-3.20 An examination of race and medicine in America, primarily but not exclusively focused on African Americans' encounters with the health care system. Topics include slavery and health; doctors, immigrants, and epicemics; the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the use of minorities as research subjects; and race and genetic disease. HSHM 640a, Molecules, Life, Disease: 20th Century. Bruno Strasser. MW 11.30-12:20 This course explores the transformation of the life sciences in the 20th century. It focuses on the rise of the "molecular vision of life" and disease, emphasizing its relationship to broader intellectual, social, cultural and political changes. It discusses the rich and varied historiography of molecular biology and reflects on its role in the making professional identities, collective memories and disciplinary boundaries. A two-hour graduate discussion section will develop themes addressed during the course. HSHM 676a, The Engineering and Ownership
of Life. Daniel Kevles. T 1.30-3.20 HSHM 680b, History of Chinese Science. William Summers. Th 1.30-3.20 HSHM 918b, Research Seminar in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences. John Harley
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