HPSC-X 205 INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL HIST (3 CR)
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11:30A-12:45P MW WB WEB
Bertoloni Meli D
IUB GenEd S&H credit
COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Above class meets 100% Online with a combination of
Synchronous and Asynchronous instruction. For more
information visit https://fall2020.iu.edu/learning-modes/
This class covers the history of Western medicine from Hippocrates in Ancient Greece to the present. As we are seeing in our own time, medical history shaped human history, often in dramatic ways. We will study changing concepts of disease; past epidemics, including the Black Death, which killed about a third of Europe’s population; efforts to understand human anatomy and physiology; the history of vaccination and the germ theory of disease; the role of medical images in anatomy and pathology. There are no pre-requisites to take this class.
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