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Regional and Topical Surveys

HIST 146 Comparative Medicine

Feierman

Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)

This course focuses on health and healing in the colonial and post-colonial world. We give special attention to local healing under the condition of domination, to definitions of the body and the person in biomedicine and in non-European healing traditions, and to the political and cultural place of medicine in regions which have experienced colonial rule.