Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Disease & Society
Term
2024C
Subject area
HSOC
Section number only
301
Section ID
HSOC4303301
Course number integer
4303
Meeting times
W 10:15 AM-1:14 PM
Meeting location
COHN 237
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Robert A. Aronowitz
Description
What is disease? In this seminar students will ask and answer this question by analyzing historical documents, scientific reports, and historical scholarship (primarily 19th and 20th century U.S. and European). We will look at disease from multiple perspectives -- as a biological process, clinical entity, population phenomenon, historical actor and personal experience. We will pay special attention to how diseases have been recognized, diagnosed, named and classified in different eras, cultures and professional settings.
Course number only
4303
Use local description
No