Welcome Spring 2013 students!
by Prof. Hangen - January 4th, 2013
Welcome to the all-honors course “Health and Healing in America” for Spring 2013. I have posted the syllabus for this term – just click on either of the links in the sidebar to the left.
You will need the following books for this course:
Porter, Roy. Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine. W.W. Norton, 2004. ISBN 039-332569-5
Ira Rutkow, Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America (Scribner, 2010) ISBN-10: 1416538283
Michael Willrich, Pox: An American History (Penguin, 2012) ISBN-13: 9780143120780
Penney, Darby. The Lives they Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic. Bellevue Literary Press, 2009. ISBN 1-934137-147
PLEASE NOTE: the Rutkow book, Seeking the Cure will not be in the bookstore, so you are on your own for ordering it, but Amazon (or your favorite online new/used bookseller) can surely supply it or you can order it as a Kindle edition for viewing on a Kindle, smartphone, computer, or tablet.
Our class will meet on MW starting Wed 1/23 in Sullivan 107 at 12:30 pm. Since we are not meeting for almost a whole week at the start of the semester (due to a Thursday start followed by a 3-day weekend), please prepare for our first class by reading Porter, Blood and Guts Chapters 1 and 2 on “Disease” and “Doctors.” See you soon!
PS: I taught an earlier version of this course in Fall 2010, using this same website, and I’m leaving up the old information as an archive for those students. You can safely ignore any post tagged “Fall10” below this one.
