HIST 632 Women’s Health and Healing

This graduate seminar investigates the history of medicine for and by women spanning the 1600s-1900s in Europe and America. Course readings include primary and secondary sources that trace changing ideas about women’s health and bodies, as well as women’s roles as healers and patients. More specific topics include childbirth and motherhood, experiences of breast cancer, ideas about race, slavery, and women’s bodies, the history of birth control, and women’s roles in the reform of public health.

3 Credit(s)