Calendar
Schedule for HIST 30626
| Week | Topic | Readings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | ||
| 2 | Colonial Medicine | Kraut, Introduction; Blake, "Boston;" Mather, "Angel;" Christianson, "New England" | |
| 3 | Medicine and American Geography | Nash, Ch. 1-2 | |
| 4 | Cultures of Disease and Care | Ulrich, "August 1787;" Abel, "Family Caregiving;" Rothman, Sect. II; Sicherman, "Neurasthenia" | |
| 5 | Therapeutics and Sectarianism | Rosenberg, "Therapeutics;" Whorton, Ch. 1-4 | Article Choice Due |
| 6 | Practice and Profession | Lewis, Ch. 1-18; Hertzler, Ch. 1-6; Starr, "Consolidation;" Morantz-Sanchez, "Connecting Link" | |
| 7 | Public Health | Kraut, Ch. 2-4, 9; Brieger, "Stodd Smith;" Rosenberg and Smith-Rosenberg, "Pietism;" Savitt, "Black Health;" Lewis, Ch. 19-24 | |
| 8 | Hospitals and Surgeons | Hertzler, Ch. 7-10; Kraut, Ch. 8; Vogel, "Patrons;" Lewis, Ch. 25; Smith, "Appendicitis;" Atwater, "Of Grandes Dames" | Midterm Exam handed out |
| 9 | *Mid-Semester Break* | ||
| 10 | Specialization and Compensation | Whorton, Ch. 6-10; Tomes, "Private Side;" D'Antonio, "Revisiting;" Numbers, "Third Party" | Midterm Due |
| 11 | Eugenics and Race | Rothman, Sect. IV; Kraut, Ch. 5-6; Appel, "Duty to Kill?;" Kenny, "Blood, Race, and Politics;" Brandt, "Tuskegee" | Annotated Bibliographies Due |
| 12 | Progressive Reform and Occupational Medicine: The New Public Health | Nash, Ch. 3; Kraut, Ch. 7; Gabriel, "Mass-Producing the Individual;" Grob, "Chronic Disease" | |
| 13 | Science, Ethics, and (the Pharmaceutical) Industry | Lewis, Ch. 26-40; Epstein, "AIDS;" Rasmussen, "The Drug Industry;" Tomes, "Great American Medicine Show revisited" | |
| 14 | Environment and the New Epidemiology | Nash, Ch. 4-5; Sellars, "The Dearth of the Clinic;" Talley, Kushner, and Sterk, "Lung Cancer" | |
| 15 | Disease and Lifestyle | Hertzler, Ch. 11-12; Whorton, Ch. 11-12, Conclusion; Kraut, Ch. 10; Elliott, "Amputees;" Fairchild, "Polio Narratives;" Hirshbein, "Science, Gender, and the Emergence of Depression" | Term Paper Due; Final Exam handed out |
Citation: Hamlin, C. (2008, October 10). Calendar. Retrieved February 12, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/history/medicine-and-public-health-in-american-history/calendar-1.
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