HIST 151 PZ -Race & Medicine in U.S. History

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Race and Medicine in U.S. History: Beginning with the establishment of plantation slavery and the process of expropriating Native American land in the colonial Americas, Anglo-American physicians have used theories of racial difference to interpret health in the Americas. In this course, students will trace the rise of scientific race concept and its dissemination in U.S. Medicine from the colonial period to the present. Finally, this course asks students to consider how everyday activists and physicians have challenged the use of race in medicine in diverse social movements in U.S. history.

Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.

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