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History of Medicine (HMED) Courses

Academic Unit: Medical School-Adm

HMED 1015W - The Value of Health: An Introduction to Health Humanities [LITR WI]

(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)

This course introduces students to the study of Health Humanities, a field that recognizes all the ways that the achievement of health and the practice of medicine are deeply rooted in the human experience of culture, power, history, ethics, as well as science. By applying the methods, concepts, and content from traditional humanities disciplines, the health humanities aim to improve health care by influencing its practitioners to refine and complexify students? judgments based on a deep and complex understanding of illness, suffering, personhood, and related issues. We will explore all the ways that health and medicine are shaped not just by the clinical encounter, but by social, political, and cultural forces that make the experience of medicine, health, and care ever more important. This course prioritizes BIG CONVERSATIONS about health, wellness, illness, care, and selfhood. It also prioritizes the need to develop effective skills of communication through in-class conversation and out-of-class writing. Additionally, this course recognizes the relationship between reading, searching for and interpreting evidence, and the clinical skills of diagnosis, patient advocacy, and humane medicine. In order to achieve these aims, we will be writing about the readings in formal and informal ways, always with an eye toward how we see agency, power, and humanity at work in the representation of medicine, illness, and health.

HMED 3001W - Health, Disease, and Healing I [WI HIS]

(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)

Equivalent courses: was HMED 3001 until 05-SEP-00, HMED 3001V (inactive)

Introduction to intellectual/social history of European/American medicine, health care from classical antiquity through 18th century.

HMED 3002W - Health Care in History II [WI HIS]

(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)

Equivalent courses: was HMED 3002 until 05-SEP-00

The course explores the history of medicine from the early 1800s through the present day. Topics covered include the history of public health, germ theory, medical technology, surgery, empire and medicine, health insurance, and mind-body medicine. Hands-on work at the Wangensteen Historical Library will also enrich our understanding of diseases as more than objective biological entities. Special attention is paid to the ways culture, race, and economy have shaped the history of healthcare over time.

HMED 3035 - Sex and Gender in US Medicine: Queering the Medical Model

(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Spring & Summer)

Queering the Medical Model addresses homosexual, transgender, and intersex history of medicine in the United States from 1800 to the present along three intersecting themes. First, the course charts scientific constructs of sex, sexuality, and gender from the 19th to the 20th centuries. Second, it explores how sex and gender became entangled with the so-called medical model, from the role of medical jurisprudence in leveraging a two-sex system for legal claims, sex and sexual disorder research in the early 20th century, the development of hormonal and surgical technologies to manipulate gender morphology in the later 20th century, and the impact of the medical model on medical access historically and in the present. Finally, it identifies how queer and gender non-conforming people resisted, dodged, and mobilized changing scientific constructs, medical possibilities, and social opportunities. This course combines lectures, discussions, and guided engagement with historical materials from several archival holdings, alongside with relevant readings from history and other disciplines.

HMED 3040 - Human Health, Disease, and the Environment in History [HIS]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring & Summer)

Introduction to historical relationship of human health and the environment. How natural/human-induced environmental changes have, over time, altered our experiences with disease and our prospects for health.

HMED 3055 - Women, Health, and History [HIS DSJ]

(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Women's historical roles as healers, patients, research subjects, health activists. Biological determinism, reproduction, mental health, nursing, women physicians, public health reformers, alternative practitioners. Gender disparities in diagnosis, treatment, research, careers. Assignments allow students to explore individual interests.

HMED 3065 - Body, Soul, and Spirit in Medieval and Renaissance European Medicine

(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)

Body/soul in medieval theology/cosmology. Religious conceptions of body/soul. Medical conceptions in medieval world. Medieval/renaissance psychology. Medical astrology and its consequences. Medical normal/abnormal body. Medicine of reproduction and sexual identity. Death, burial, dissection, and resurrection in medical/religious perspective. Macrocosmic/microcosmic body. Limits to human power/authority over body. Anatomical/chemical body/spirit.

HMED 3075 - Technology and Medicine in Modern America [TS HIS]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)

How technology came to medicine's center-stage. Impact on production of medical knowledge, professionalization, development of institutions/industry, health policy, and gender/race disparities in health care.

HMED 3315 - Early Modern Medicine in the Arts and Literature [AH]

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

What did the arts offer to medicine, and what did medicine offer to the arts in early modern time? How did the representation of the human being in poetry, drama, and figurative arts interplay with the new medical culture and practices at that time? This course will examine the dynamic interchange and engagement of Western Renaissance medical culture (before 1800) in relation to literary, visual and performing arts, approaching questions that cross disciplinary, geographical, and social boundaries. Topics to be addressed include historical questions related to the intersection between the late European medieval university?s programs of medicine and arts, humanistic culture, and medical charlatanism. Moreover, we will focus on the ephemeral rituals of medical and performative practices and the visual culture in works of art and scientific illustrated treatises of life, death, and the afterlife. Finally, we will explore the embodiments in poetry and drama of illness and metaphor, gender conflicts, and medical, spiritual, and philosophical views of what it meant to be human. By exploring the value of humanistic study and medical ethical concerns in Renaissance humanism, students will understand the historical sources of a modern humanistic formation and be informed about the importance of ethics to citizenship, reconsidering the present vision of a humanistic education and imagining the future in the academic humanities and in our society. The course will culminate in a digital project involving students in the creation of a virtual exhibit on the course topics, by using the New Builder StoryMaps software proposed by DASH/U-Spatial. This is an introductory-level course.

HMED 3325 - Data, Death and Doctors: Hands-on Historical Health Research [SOCS]

(3 cr; Student Option No Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

HMED 3325 is an applied introduction to historical medical demography: the study of who is sick or injured, and the type of treatments given, and what happens after treatment. The records created by health care workers give us important insights into how medical practice has changed over time, making the quantitative study of historical medical records central to the History of Medicine. We often ask two fundamental questions when examining medical records: ?how bad is it?? and ?what works?? In other words, what are the consequences of illness or injury, and how effective are medical interventions? These are questions that continue to be asked today in contemporary health and medicine, so the analytical techniques you learn in this class can be applied to modern data. Unlike modern health records whose access is restricted to protect people?s privacy, surviving historical health records can be used quite easily. This course will give you a hands-on experience in working with health data and researching the history of medicine. You will learn about different ways to collect and analyze data to effectively answer questions such as ?what happened to people who were sick? and ?did medical care help people???this is often called ?causal inference?. To do this effectively with historical medical records, we will read about how people in the past understood the illness or intervention we are studying. Understanding changes in the way people thought about illness and disease is another core part of the History of Medicine. To make sense of data, we need to know about how the people creating it understood the concepts they were measuring. This principle applies equally to modern data: effective data analysis requires us to understand what the numbers mean. The class is structured to give you an overview of the research process from data collection to initial analyses. Working as a class we will collect a sample of historical health records from the University of Minnesot

HMED 3345 - Medicine, Health, and Diseases in East Asia [GP HIS]

(3 cr; Student Option No Audit; offered Every Fall)

This course explores the history of medicine in East Asia from the ancient period to the present day. From the globalization of acupuncture practices to the fight against the deadly SARS and COVID viruses, East and Southeast Asians in their homelands and abroad have sought to develop, transform, and disseminate their ways of healing. We will critically examine classical Chinese medicine's persistence, transformation, and globalization in the region and beyond. Other topics covered include the role of Western medicine in East Asia, the contestation over vaccination and pharmaceuticals, the role of colonialism in shaping medical practices, and the imaginations of Asian medicine in the United States.

HMED 3940 - Topics in History of Medicine (Topics course)

(1 cr [max 3]; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)

Selected history of medicine topics not covered in regular courses.

HMED 3993 - Directed Study (independent study)

(1 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 3 times)

Equivalent courses: was HMED 3600 until 16-JAN-18

Guided individual reading or study.

HMED 4965W - Senior Research in Medical History [WI] (independent study)

(3 cr; Prereq-Sr, instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)

Equivalent courses: was HMED 4960 until 05-SEP-17

Seminar. Reading/discussion, individual directed research project with oral presentation. Students meet in peer groups and with instructor.

HMED 5075 - Technology and Medicine in Modern America

(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Odd, Spring Even Year)

How technology came to medicine?s center-stage. Impact on medical practice, institutions, consumers, production of medical knowledge, professionalization, health policy, gender/race disparities in health care.

HMED 5940 - Topics in the History of Medicine (Topics course)

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 15 credits; may be repeated 5 times)

Equivalent courses: was HIST 5942 until 02-SEP-03, was HIST 5942 until 21-JAN-03, was HIST 5942 until 16-JAN-01, was HIST 5942 until 05-SEP-00, was HIST 5942 until 07-SEP-99

Selected history of medicine topics not covered in regular courses.

HMED 7500 - Historical Research for Medical Students

(4 cr; H-N only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 8 credits; may be repeated 2 times)

This course is designed to acquaint third and fourth year medical students with the sources and the methods of historical research in medical topics and to allow them to undertake a short research project on a topic which they help design.

HMED 8001 - Foundations in the History of Early Medicine

(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)

History of Western medicine, from professionalization of healing in Greco-Egyptian antiquity to association of postmortem pathology with disease and clinical movement of early 19th-century Paris.

HMED 8002 - Foundations in the History of Modern Medicine, 1800-present

(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)

This seminar explores the history of modern medicine from the early 1800s through the present day. Topics covered include the history of public health, germ theory, medical technology, empire and medicine, health insurance, alternative medicine, and mind-body medicine. Historiographical and research methods will be emphasized. Special attention is also paid to the ways culture, race, geography, and economy have shaped the history of medicine over time.

HMED 8045 - Global Health Histories in Western and Asian Contexts

(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

This seminar examines the histories of global health in Western and Asian contexts. We will explore the antecedents of global health, including colonial, tropical, and League of Nations medicine, drawing from case studies in the United States, Western Europe, Africa, and East and Southeast Asia. We will also explore the history of the World Health Organization, particularly the roles that Western and Asian nations play in shaping its component health care such as Primary Health Care, family planning, and pandemic measures. Finally, we will explore how physicians sought political and medical changes in their policies through their interpretation of global medicine and health.

HMED 8112 - Historiography of Science, Technology, and Medicine

(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)

Models of practice, different schools. Work of representative historians of science, technology, and medicine.

HMED 8113 - Research Methods in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)

Equivalent courses: HSCI 8113

Introduction to sources, methods, and problems of research in history of science, technology, and medicine. Preparation of major research paper under faculty supervision.

HMED 8135 - Disease and Debility in History

(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

In this graduate seminar we will examine how concepts of disease and health have changed over time and across place. We?ll move from debates over the identity of the Black Death in 14th century Europe to the treatment of infectious diseases in Imperial China and colonial India, and to the contested diagnoses of AIDS and fetal alcohol syndrome in late 20th century United States. Along the way we?ll evaluate the different methodological approaches used by scholars to study the history of disease, and we?ll examine the ways in which social values, cultural assumptions, and political interests have shaped how diseases have been defined, experienced, and treated, and we?ll consider the role that diseases have played in the shaping of health care institutions, policies, and practices. At the same time, we?ll examine the processes of medicalization and demedicalization; colonialism, post-colonialism, and the politics of state-building; the ecological understandings of disease, environmentalism, and the politics of place; and the increasingly visible role of the politicized consumer and patient activist in late 20th century health care politics.

HMED 8220 - Seminar: Current Topics in the History of Medicine (Topics course)

(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)

Topics vary.

HMED 8333 - FTE: Master's

(1 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)

(No description)

HMED 8444 - FTE: Doctoral

(1 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)

(No description)

HMED 8631 - Directed Study

(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)

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HMED 8632 - Directed Study

(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)

tbd

HMED 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits

(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; dept consent for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)

tbd

HMED 8777 - Thesis Credits: Master's

(1 cr [max 18]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required [Plan A only]; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 50 credits; may be repeated 10 times)

(No description)

HMED 8830 - Topics in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Topics course)

(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)

Historical literature of topics common to history of science, technology, and medicine.

HMED 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

(1 cr [max 24]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 100 credits; may be repeated 10 times)

(No description)

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