Resources

• HPA Majors + Prehealth Information: Social Sciences (google slides)

Courses of Interest

• HIS 393 – Race, Drugs and Drug Policy in America (HA)
• HIS 394 – The Rise of Modern Biomedicine (HA)
• HIS 395 – History of Medicine and the Body (HA)

Sample health-related HIS theses

• “And Then They Came For Me” An Examination of Human Medical Experimentation in Nazi Germany and the United States
• A Bundle of Sadness: Medicalization of Postpartum Depression
• “Eternal Father, Strong to Save”: The US Navy Medical Department in the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953
• House of Extended Grace: Gwanghyewon and the Role of Medical Missions in Early Korean Christianity during the 1880s
• A Madness Network: Psychiatric Survivor Activism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1972-1986
• “Opinions, Statements, Knowledge, Hearsay”: Scientific Controversy in AIDS Origin Theories
• "Revolution of Falling Expectations": Bertram Brown & the Political Psychiatry of Community Mental Health (1963-1978)
• THE SHOWMAN AND THE SCALPEL: P.T. BARNUM, HIS CIRCUS, AND ITS IMPACT ON MEDICINE
• Women and AIDS: Women's Advocacy and Leadership in ACT UP NY 1987-1993