STS 1451

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STS 1451
Body, Mind, and Health: Historical Perspectives for Future Professionals

Course information provided by the 2022-2023 Catalog.

A course in the social history of medicine that examines the ways in which medicine and its practitioners have impacted-and been impacted by-American social, political, cultural, and economic development. The course focuses on the changing nature of disease, the medical profession past and present as well as historical and contemporary issues in pubic health. Films on different diseases and medical issues are shown twice weekly in the afternoons and there are daily morning discussion sections with teaching assistants to talk about reading and writing assignments. Students are evaluated on written assignments, participation in lectures and discussion sections, and performance on an in-class final.


Permission Note Open to: high school students.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)

When Offered Summer.

Breadth Requirement (HB)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Three Week - Three. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1292 STS 1451   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous

    This Online Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ss/courses/courses.php?v=2031