# Calendar

Recitation sections meet for one hour each week. They are not included in the course calendar.

Course calendar.
Lec # | TOPICS | READINGs AND PAPERS | KEY DATES
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1 | Introduction: Disease, Medicine, and Society |  |
Part 1: Changing Patterns of Health and Disease
2 | Health and Disease Before Columbus | Trans-Atlantic Epidemiology |
3 | Virgin Soil Epidemics |  |
4 | The Health of Colonists | Health and the Environment |
5 | Disease and the Environment |  |
6 | Urbanization and Public Health | Urbanization and Health |
7 | The Decline of Tuberculosis |  |
8 | Epidemiological Transitions and Health Disparities | Epidemiological Transitions |
9 | The Determinants of Health and Disease |  |
10 | Debate: Disease History and Health Policy |  | Paper 1 due
Part 2: Medicine and Society
11 | American Indian Medicine | Colonial Therapeutics |
12 | Colonial Medical Theory and Practice |  |
13 | Inocutation and Vaccination | Medicine in the 18th century |
14 | Self Help and Heroic Medicine |  |
15 | Medical Education | Creating a Medical Profession |
16 | The Rise of Hospitals |  | Paper 2 due
17 | Race, Gender, and Medicine | Scientific Racism/Sexism |
18 | Psychiatry and Mental Health |  |
Part 3: The Rise of Modern Medicine
19 | Anesthesia and the Rise of Surgery | Therapeutic Revolutions |
20 | Germ Theory and the Therapeutic Revolution |  |
21 | Public Health Politics I: Plague in Chinatown |  | Paper 3 due
22 | Medical Technology and the Modern Hospital | Medical Technologies |
23 | Specialization and Medical Education |  |
24 | Public Health Politics II: HIV/AIDS | Public Health Revisited |
25 | Health Care Policy: Access and Cost |  |
26 | Disease and Society in the 21st Century |  | Paper 4 due