HIST 140 - History of Medicine, Drugs and Life Sciences

(3 credits) Meets GOAL 5 and GOAL 10.

This course introduces students to important developments in the history of medicine, drugs and the life sciences, covering the period between antiquity and the present. It examines how past thinkers and world cultures understood the human body and its relationship to its living environment. It pursues how such ideas and relationships changed over time leading to the development of modern medicine and the life sciences. Grade only. Offered annually.

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