| I have a friend who is a professor in this program. He is perhaps the most intellectually curious person I know, and one of the most admirable human beings -- just a great, thoughtful, morally engaged person, whose academic work is extremely interesting. He's an MD who does work on the history of medicine mainly from an ethical/philosophical perspective. He uses both conventional history-of-science stuff -- the top-level developments in science and technology, public health statistics -- but he also makes extensive use of old patient records and journals, and physicians' correspondence and journals, to examine the nuances of individual doctor-patient relationships, advice, and treatment. It is very, very cool.
Other people in the program have interests ranging from conventional health care policy issues to witch doctors and magic in rural societies. It's really a great department, one of the best of its kind. It OUGHT to be popular with pre-meds who don't want to major in science, and with people who are interested in policy and economic issues involving health care. |