Health and Healing in America

I appreciated the lively discussion during our first in-person meeting last evening. Things are off to a great start! Here is what you will need for this next week. Continue reading →

Thanks for checking in with a first journal entry this week and for going along with my experimental online lecture. I appreciated hearing from each of you and look forward to our first in-person meeting:
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Hello all! Sorry it took me longer to post this than I had planned – but here is the material for our first day of class (“virtual”), Wednesday Jan 22nd. Continue reading →

This website serves as the hub for Tona Hangen’s history course, “Health and Healing in America,” for the Spring 2014 semester at Worcester State University. This course will be taught as a hybrid course, partly online but with about half our time in face-to-face meetings. On those dates (see the “Schedule” tab above) we will meet in room S2-351 at UMass Medical School, Worcester MA from 5-8 pm.

The textbooks for this course are listed under the “Readings” tab above.

From this website, you can download the syllabus or access it online, stay up to date with course news and any changes, see the guidelines for the course papers and projects, and follow links to my recommended intellectual history and writing resources on the web.

This site is a blog, meaning it updates frequently and therefore you should either bookmark it or subscribe to it using an RSS feed reader (such as Feedly) to stay up to date with all the course news and updates. To subscribe, just click on the orange RSS symbol in the sidebar. I leave up the previous semesters’ information as an archive for my past students. You can safely ignore any post tagged “Spr2013” or earlier.

If you have questions about the course before we meet in person in January, please feel free to email me, at thangen (at) worcester.edu