STS 1451

STS 1451

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 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 public health.


Permission Note Open to: high school students.

Last 4 terms offered 2024SU, 2023SU, 2022SU, 2021SU

When Offered Summer.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Three Week - Three. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1180 STS 1451   LEC 001

    • Jul 14 - Aug 1, 2025
    • Lieberman, J

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous

    This Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/courses/roster.