Health Care in America: 1800-Present
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Description
This course will focus on the history of doctors, patients, epidemics, and other illnesses from smallpox to HIV/AIDS over the last three centuries. It examines the rise of the health care professions, changing meanings of disease, scientific discoveries, new problems of high costs and insurance, and medicine's effects on society. Topics include vaccinations, public health, popular images of medicine, childbirth, the modern hospital, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Career
Undergraduate
Credits
Value
3
Max
3
Min
3
Course Count
1
Number Of Credits
3
Number Of Repeats
1
Repeatable
No
Contact Use
Yes
Generate Attendance
No
Left Use
Yes
Present Use
Yes
Reason Use
Yes
Tardy Use
Yes
Template Override
No
Time Use
Yes
Attendance Type
Class Meeting
Auto Create
No
Code
LEC
Instructor Contact Hours
3
Default Section Size
35
Final Exam Type
Yes
Include in Dynamic Date Calc
No
Instruction Mode
In Person
LMS File Type
Blackboard CourseInfo 4
Name
Lecture
OEE Workload Hours
0
Optional Component
No
Preferred Room Features
Academic Scheduling
Workload Hours
3