MENA585M

041222

This course provides an overview of major issues in the history of medicine (disease diagnosis, treatment, and care focused on the individual patient) and public health (institutions, infrastructures, and policies concerned with the health of populations) in the Middle East, from the 7th century to the present. We will consider how medicine and public health have functioned as contested spheres of social, political, and economic power in various communities and historical periods in the Middle East. Through primary and secondary readings, class discussion, written assignments, and a final research paper, this course will develop students' skills in historical reading, writing, and critical analysis.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate

CE - CL (Cross Listed), GIDP - PRIR (Persian and Iranian Studies)

Students are recommended to have taken MENA/HIST 277A and MENA/HIST 277B prior to taking this class.

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