HIST 248 - Public Health, Private Bodies

4 credit(s)
This course explores the changing relationship between institutional and societal efforts to maintain public health, contemporary knowledge about human bodies, disease, and “health,” and the efforts by individuals and local communities to control their own health through the course of American history. Students will confront the efforts by the state and institutions to expand their power and deploy their knowledge in efforts to control unsanitary environments, the ways in which new forms of technology has transformed the healthiness of environments, as well as the ways in which that this knowledge of bodies and health was informed by historical understandings of poverty, of race, and of gender. Also listed as PH 248.
Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.