HIST 263

Disease, Medicine and Society, 1500-present

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

Surveys Western medicine from the Renaissance to the present and social responses to major diseases. Topics include the evolution of medical professions, key developments in technology and theory and trends in public health.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 263, 265 (if taken in the same topic).

Undergraduate course in History offered by the Department of History in the Faculty of Humanities.