Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Bacteria, Bodies, and Empires: Medicine and Healing in the Eastern Mediterranean (15th-21st c.)
Term
2023A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
401
Section ID
HIST1365401
Course number integer
1365
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Meeting location
TOWN 311
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Secil Yilmaz
Description
Bacteria, Bodies, and Empires is a survey course about the history of medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean from early modern period to the present. It addresses the major issues and questions concerning bodies, diseases, and medical institutions within the context of major historical developments in the world and region’s history. The course looks at how medicine, knowledge, and practices about diseases and bodies changed political and social conditions, as well as how socio-political changes defined and transformed people's perceptions of health, life, and the environment. Scholars have frequently examined the history of medicine in Eastern Mediterranean societies, either in relation to Islamic culture in the early modern period or, more recently, in relation to Westernization and modernization. By situating the history of medical knowledge and practices in the Eastern Mediterranean within global history, this course seeks to challenge these fixed paradigms and shed light on questions and research agendas that will unearth the encounters, connections, and mobility of bacteria, bodies, and medical methods among various communities.
Course number only
1365
Cross listings
HSOC1362401
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled