HPC-3150 HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE
This course examines issues in health care from ancient Greece through present day. Rather than a chronological framework, people, places, and ideas that provide opportunities for deep reading, thinking, and writing about the systems that and individuals who have built the medical complex, as well as the paradigm shifts and inflection points that have happened along the way will be explored. The course will focus on two things in particular: 1) how medical knowledge and health care has been mutually constructed (i.e. through a “negotiated process”) by the patient and health care providers in the larger context of cultural forces, and 2) how historically privileged and marginalized persons and communities have used medical knowledge to defend and challenge the social order.