HIST 5202 - Women’s Health and Medicine in U.S. History

Examines, from the colonial era to the present, changes in the medical treatment of women and changes in the definition of women’s health and illness. Topics to be explored include the history of women and domestic health; women and public health; pregnancy, prenatal care, and prenatal testing; birth; breastfeeding; birth control; abortion; menstruation; menopause; infertility and assisted reproductive technologies; sexually-transmitted infections; women and addiction; breast cancer; and the impact of the inadequacies and inequities of contemporary health policy on women.

Requisites

Credit Hours: 4.0
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I