HISTORY *759 / Public Health and Medicine in Nineteenth Century Canada and the United States

3 unit(s)

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This seminar explores topics in the history of public health and medicine in Canada and the United States. Topics will include: Historiography of Health and Medicine; Colonial Orthodox and Alternative Medical Practice, c. 1800; The Rise of the Hospital, 1800-1850; Health Care Professionalization, 1815-67; Urban Epidemics, 1832-1866; Public Health and the Decline of Mortality, 1850-1914; ‘Scientific Medicine’ and the Germ Theory of Disease, 1850-1872; Childbirth and Maternal Mortality, 1850-1900; Child Health and Welfare, 1880-1914; The Eugenics Movement, 1880-1914; the transformation of the hospital, 1880-1914.