428B Women Medicine:Patients & Practitioners From Antiquity To Present (3)
This course explores, in a selective fashion, the role of women in Western
medicine both as health care providers and patients. The subject of the history
of medicine is too broad to be covered comprehensively in a semester, and so we
will focusing on diseases or physical conditions which were believed to be
limited to women--childbirth, certain mental health conditions, reproductive
health, breast cancer-- as well as the increasing marginalization of women
within the profession of health care providers to those branches concerned
primarily with "women's problems." Offered: On demand