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Disease and Society in America

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesSTS.005
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2005English
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This course examines the growing importance of medicine in culture, economics and politics. It uses an historical approach to examine the changing patterns of disease, the causes of morbidity and mortality, the evolution of medical theory and practice, the development of hospitals and the medical profession, the rise of the biomedical research industry, and the ethics of health care in America.

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