Apr 28, 2024  
2014-2015 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MDHM 204 - History of Scientific Medicine

3 credits
The science-based medicine of our time may not be the only medicine, but it is the one on which most of us rely. It affects our lives in countless ways, and an appreciation of its historical development is warranted. This course deals with the great scientific discoveries that made modern medicine possible. It tracecs the growth of anatomy, surgery, physiology and pathology in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and examines more fully the extraordinary expansion and proliferation of medical sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries.



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