"History of Medicine" provides an accessible historical and interdisciplinary perspective on medicine, focused primarily upon therapy and practice, to achieve better understanding of the scope, practice, and limits of medicine. Medicine is defined as the treatment of disease. Human attempts to understand and treat disease will be seen as evolving from the spiritual and mystical practices of the distant past, to the rational approach of the Classical World, and finally to the scientific thinking of the Renaissance and beyond.
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The History of Medicine: Philosophy, Science, and Psychology
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You will learn to describe historical attempts to unravel the mysteries of disease with various theoretical models.
You will learn to tell the story of the major advances in modern medicine.
You will learn to speculate on the future of medicine from an informed perspective.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
3 hours to complete
Week 1
3 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 84 min), 5 readings, 2 quizzes
3 hours to complete
Week 2
3 hours to complete
10 videos (Total 87 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes
3 hours to complete
Week 3
3 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 87 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes
2 hours to complete
Week 4
2 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 77 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes
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