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Medicine in America: Comparative Perspectives HI 31L Roberta Bivins

Medicine in America: Comparative Perspectives HI 31L Roberta Bivins

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Medicine in America: Comparative Perspectives

HI 31LRoberta Bivins

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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.

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And what is this ‘comparative’ thing about?• Why a comparative perspective on medicine in the US?– US medicine has over the course of the 20th century taken a very distinctive form: by looking at medical practices and healthcare systems in other cultures, we can address the reasons why US health care has taken the form we see today.

• Where else will we look?– Britain– Japan, Australia, Canada and elsewhere in the Americas.

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What kind of history is this?•Social•Political•Economic•Cultural

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Approaches to the history of medicine

• Through case studies• Through individual accounts• Through politics• Through professionalization• Through technologies, images and artefacts

• Through media representations

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(Some)Themes in the module

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Gender in/Gender and Medicine

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Medicine, Healthcare & Race

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Professions and Professionalisation

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War, Medicine and the State

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Medicine and Immigration

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Institutional History

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Medical Education

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Medicine and the Body Politic

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Diseases

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Medicine and

Technology