Courses about medical history?

LucieTheLakie
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:40:32 +0000

Not sure what the prerequisites are, but here’s an upper level history class being offered next semester, @paul2752:



HY 300-002 – Sickness, Death, Healing Through History (3 hrs.)
Peterson 01:00 pm – 01:50 pm MWF

Plague, bloody flux, yellow fever, the flu, cholera, Ebola, smallpox, AIDS — at one time
or another, each of these terms inspired terror. They’ve entered civilizations and like a
wildfire cut down men, women, children, rich, poor, religious, non-believers, even the
healers themselves. Often they disappeared as fast as they came; but once introduced to
these mysterious visitors, no society remained unchanged. In this history of medicine, we
examine six major epidemics over the last three thousand years. We’ll then turn to three
epidemics of the present: cancer, healthcare-associated infections, and bioterrorism. How
have humans responded? How has medicine adapted, if it has? What were the blind-spots
in the past and in our present?



http://history.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Spring-2015-Course-List.pdf

It’s being taught by this fellow: http://history.ua.edu/faculty/erik-peterson/

UA also offers some upper level sociology courses that may be along the lines of what you’re interested in studying:



SOC 352 Social Inequality (same as AAST 352 and WS 352). 3 hours.

Analysis of inequities of wealth, power, and prestige; major theories of racial and cultural minorities; behavioral correlates of stratification; social mobility.

SOC 360 Sociology of HIV/AIDS. 3 hours.

Study of the social dimensions of HIV/AIDS. Discussions cover how HIV/AIDS is socially constructed in terms of gender, sexualities, race/ethnicity, and social class.

SOC 390 Special Topics in Sociology. 3 hours.

The course may be taken a total of four times, with different topics. Social behavior; science, technology, and society; Latin American life; small-group dynamics; environmental sociology; medical sociology.

SOC 404 Health and Crime (same as CJ 404). 3 hours.

The health consequences of social deviance and the impact of criminalization for individual and societal wellbeing. Seminar discussions cover the criminalization of mental and physical illness and illnesses arising from criminal behavior and incarceration.



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