"History of Medicine" provides an accessible historical and interdisciplinary perspective on medicine, focused primarily upon therapy and practice, to achieve better understanding of the scope, practice, and limits of medicine. Medicine is defined as the treatment of disease. Human attempts to understand and treat disease will be seen as evolving from the spiritual and mystical practices of the distant past, to the rational approach of the Classical World, and finally to the scientific thinking of the Renaissance and beyond.
The History of Medicine: Philosophy, Science, and Psychology
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The History of Medicine: Philosophy, Science, and Psychology
Instructors: Grant Hartzog
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You will learn to describe historical attempts to unravel the mysteries of disease with various theoretical models.
You will learn to tell the story of the major advances in modern medicine.
You will learn to speculate on the future of medicine from an informed perspective.
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There are 5 modules in this course
We start with the basics this week: disease, medicine, and the origins of therapy.
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7 videos5 readings2 assignments
This week we travel through time and space, from the ancient world to the Renaissance, to Egypt, India, Greece, China, the Islamic world, and finally, Western Europe.
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10 videos4 readings2 assignments
This week we review the rapid advances in science (and pseudoscience) in the the 18th and 19th centuries.
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7 videos4 readings2 assignments
This week we're getting into drugs and alternative medicine.
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7 videos4 readings2 assignments
We've finally made it back to the present. This week we review the current state of the art and look ahead at the future of medicine.
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11 videos4 readings2 assignments1 peer review
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