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Clinic & Microscope: Scientific Medicine in 20th C - ARTS3301
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Course Outline: Contact School
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Enrolment in a major or minor in History and Philosophy of Science or a minor in Archaeology and 72 uoc overall including 12 uoc at Level 2 in the major or minor
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Subject Area: History and Philosophy of Science
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Archaeology

This subject explores the dramatic changes in medicine and the experience of illness that took place as science reshaped Western medical practice and institutions, and became the source of medicine's social authority, over the past century. We look at the interactions between the ideology of science and progress, the identity of the physician, and the understanding of life and sickness in an age of unprecedented social and technological change marked by wonder drugs, heart transplants, DNA, and social critique of technocratic medicine. We also learn to employ general concepts for understanding these cultural and technological developments.

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