LAN310 History of Medical Science

This is an introductory course that surveys the worldwide history of medicine from ancient times to today, emphasizing the more recent practices in the U.S. Episodes in the history of medicine will be discussed to explore how major discoveries changed medicine and the view of health, and illness. Discoveries such as microorganisms, DNA function, advances in physiology, immunology, development of vaccines and various drugs, will be examined in view of how they changed the course of medicine and our understanding of diseases. Prerequisite(s): LAN110 General Biology. 5 quarter hours

Distribution

GenEd-Life Science