2025-2026 University Catalog 
    
    Aug 28, 2025  
2025-2026 University Catalog

HIST 371 - Medicine, Health and Healing in Africa


Designed as a reading seminar, students are introduced to major themes and the ways in which scholars approach them. Students read and discuss several recent books of history and anthropology on varied topics relevant to medicine, health and healing in Africa. These range from historical forms of healing to training African medical students to the history of malaria to the complexity of pharmacological discoveries and patenting to psychiatry and decolonization.

Credits: 1.0
Crosslisted:   
Corequisite: None
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: No First-year
Area of Inquiry: Social Relations, Institutions, & Agents
Liberal Arts Practices: None
Core Component: None


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