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Instructor: Hester Oberman
Tues/Thurs | 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
As an interdisciplinary health humanities course, H395 will examine the evolving role from Shamans to healthcare practitioners, historically shifting concepts of the body and disease, and the fraught question of religion, race, and gender in medicine today. We will end by taking stock of Western medicine and exploring the tensions between medicalization and forces of demedicalization in its future. The seminar-style course will include a student-tailored project exploring personal or professional-oriented goals to meaningful integrate scientific knowledge with the human experience.