1. Medicine in America: From the Columbian Exchange to the Cancer Wars HI 31L Mondays 2-4 Roberta Bivins

2. The history of medicine and the history of America Why a medical perspective on the American past? –Health and the body are enduring and immediate concerns across historical periods and peoples of America; –Allows approaches to both natural and built environments; –Offers a unique perspective on social and cultural trends and beliefs: shows how they filtered into and influenced PRACTICE and daily life; –Shows interplay between cultural, political, economic and social spheres.

3. What kind of history is this? Social Political Economic Cultural

4. Approaches to the history of medicine Through case studies Through individual accounts Through politics Through professionalization Through technologies, images and artefacts Through media representations

5. (Some) Themes in the module

6. Gender in/ Gender and Medicine

7. Medicine, Healthcare & Race

8. Professions and Professionalisation

9. War, Medicine and the State

10. Medicine and Immigration

11. Institutional History

12. Medical Education

13. Medicine and the Body Politic

14. Diseases

15. Medicine and Technology