About This Major
A program that focuses on the historical evolution and socio-economic context of medical theories, education, practices, and technologies; and on the history of diseases, therapeutics, patients, and healers. Includes instruction in the concepts and methods of the historiography of medicine; the history of science, medicine, and technology; and of research methods in the history of medicine.
Related CIP Codes
- 54.0104
- History and Philosophy of Science and Technology., 30.1501
- Science, Technology and Society
At a Glance
- CIP Code
- 51.3205
- CIP Family
- 51
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