The History of Medicine in America
HIST3323
Dr. Brian
Regal
Assistant Professor for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
History Department
W-205K
Website:
http://www.kean.edu/~bregal
bregal@kean.edu
Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic (1875)
Course Description:
Survey of the development of the medical profession in the United States. Medical education and practice, scientific research, public health and their institutions.
Course Objectives:
Students will gain a familiarity with the history of medicine in general, and in America in particular. Emphasis will be placed on the role of doctors and disease and the changing nature of the profession of physician. The role of health care and the corporatization of medicine will be examined. Students will learn to apply the techniques of historical analysis to the medical field. Students will show their proficiency through a series of exams, discussions, and written projects.
• Syllabus
Required Readings: in addition to the textbook
• Some words history students should know
Supplemental Readings: Not required but strongly recommended
• Franz Joseph Gall and the origins of Phrenology
• Abortion
Medical students dissecting a cadaver, 1924
Resources: accessing these will make your life in this class much easier!
African American Surgeons: Opening Doors Exhibit
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aframsurgeons/
Cultures of Heath: A Medical Anthology, University of Windsor
Ontario, Canada
http://hih.uwindsor.ca/wordpress/
Medical History Society of New Jersey
http://www.mhsnj.org/
Museum of Early Trades and Crafts, Madison, New Jersey
Currently has an exhibit 'Crafting Cures' on the history of medicine in
Colonial New Jersey
http://www.rosenet.org/metc/
Mütter Museum, Philadelphia (Museum of weird medicine a must see!) www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington DC
http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/
Reflections on Health in Society and Culture
http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/reflections/spring2008/
US National Library of Medicine - History of Medicine site
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html
The most notorious body snatchers in history:
New York Academy of Medicine 'The Resurrectionists'
http://www.nyam.org/library/pages/historical_collections_resurrectionists
The People's Medicine Comes to Massachusetts, a history of the
medical profession and an institution
http://library.umassmed.edu/omha/fmch/index.cfm
UMDNJ (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey) medical
history library and archive.
http://www.umdnj.edu/librweb/speccoll/special_collections.html
Wellcome Library of the History of Medicine, London. Great
source for historic images
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
1859 American anatomy textbook illustration
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• Kean University Department of History Main Page http://www.kean.edu/~history/
• Kean University Main
Page
http://www.kean.edu/
Also see Kean University's
History of science, technology and medicine main page.
http://www.kean.edu/~history/academic%20disciplines%20pages/history%20of%20science%20page.htm
