HIST 452 — Topics in Pre-Modern Medicine

The history of the evolution of ideas about the human body, disease and therapeutics and the diverse practices of medicine prior to the advent of modern clinical and laboratory medicine in the 19th c., with particular attention to social, political, cultural and religious context.

• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Department: History and Classical Studies
• Prerequisites: HIST 214 or HIST 249 and a 300-level course in History or permission of instructor.