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  • 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
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