Graduate Courses taught in Spring semester 2010:

Courses at School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health

ME150.702 History of Medicine II: Enlightenment to the Present (Todes)
This course will review the social, intellectual, and cultural history of Western medicine from the 18th century to the present. Emphasis is on Western medicine as the result of Western political-economic and institutional structures., cultural values, and the rise and complexities of "scientific medicine".

ME150.715 History of Health and Development in Africa (Packard)
This course will examine  the impact of colonial and post-colonial development on patterns of sickness, health, and health care in Africa. It will also focus on African responses to changing patterns of health care and disease.  Topics include: patterns of disease and therapeutic responses in pre-colonial Africa; colonial epidemics; industrialization, urbanization, and disease; agrarian transformations, malnutrition, and the political economy of famine; sexuality, colonial control, and disease; western medicine and the social construction of African identities; African reproductive health and family planning; recession, debt, and Africa's health care crises; histories of AIDS in Africa.

ME150.813 Medicine and Science in History: An Introduction to Historiography (Hanson & Pomata)
Discussion of historiographical developments in, and various approaches  to History of Medicine based on readings of important secondary works.

SPH 340.673 History of Epidemiology (Marks)
This course will examine the development of modern epidemiological methods in the 19th and 20th centuries, through weekly readings of original texts. Emphasis will be placed on exploring the links between epidemiological methods, concepts of disease and public health practice.

150.801 Research in the History of Medicine
For doctoral candidates and other advanced students engaged in original research under faculty supervision.

150.802 Readings in the History of Medicine
Available as an elective to both graduate and medical students. Independent study program on a topic to be agreed upon with appropriate faculty member.

Krieger School of Arts & Sciences

AS140.418 Medicine for and by Women in Early Modern Europe (Pomata)
This course will examine women's role in early modern European medicine through the reading of early modern medical texts written for or by women. The course is meant for students interested in women's history, the history of medicine, European history.

AS140.649 Ancient Philosophy and Early Modern Science (Portuondo)
The course explores how early modern natural philosophers engaged with ancient philosophies to fashion the approaches to the study of nature associated with the Scientific Revolution. Topics discussed  include Neoplatonism, Hermetism, Skepticism, Atomism and various other conceptions of nature and knowledge.

AS140.651 The History and Ethics of Body Modification (O’Connor)
Explores the history and ethics of various forms of body modification, including: cosmetic surgery, tatooing, transsexuality, transableism, performance-enhancing and mood-altering drugs, prostheses, vampirism, and bodybuilding.

AS140.708 Rise of Modern Science (Kargon & Kingsland)
Seminar on major scientific developments from 18th-20th century.  Weekly readings, discussion and class presentations.  Students may attend lectures for 140.302.