This course will cover major themes in American medical history and historiography from the colonial through the progressive era. Every aspect of American "medicine" underwent tremendous transition during the period we will study. Medical education, the medical profession, and notions about cures and care changed fundamentally, as did ideas about the nature of illness itself. Our course of study, in addition to charting ways in which the practice of medicine in America has developed, will make an equal effort to understand how medicine has changed and affected American society. Topics that we will investigate include cholera, TB, and childbirth in American society, as well as other medical phenomena. Format: discussion/lecture. Evaluation will be based on class participation, a midterm exam, two short papers, a library assignment, and an 8- to 10-page research paper. No prerequisites. No enrollment limit (expected: 15-25). Groups A and D