HIST 3302 Disease, Medicine, & Society

This course looks at the relationship between disease, medicine, and societies and cultures in world history from the times of Hippocrates up to the 21^st century. It will explore topics such as how diseases have spread and affected people through all fabrics of life, from the social to the political, from the economic to the cultural; how societies have responded to pandemics; how disease shapes understandings of the world around people in a variety of cultures; how medicine and medical practices have transformed across centuries; and how human responses to disease – and diseases themselves – have changed over time.