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This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of medicine and biology. Topics might include interaction of disease and society; science, colonialism, and international health; impact of new technologies on medicine and the life sciences; neuroscience and psychiatry; race, biology …
This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of medicine and biology. Topics might include interaction of disease and society; science, colonialism, and international health; impact of new technologies on medicine and the life sciences; neuroscience and psychiatry; race, biology and medicine. Specific emphasis varies from year to year.
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![An illustration from a natural history book on whales, showing the comparative anatomy across species, including dugong and bowhead whales.](/courses/sts-330-history-and-anthropology-of-medicine-and-biology-spring-2013/40daf3963cac93557871ea6e96019fd6_sts-330s13.jpg)
This illustration compares the anatomy of the hand across several species. These anatomical differences are important in the classification of life. Diagram E is a human arm, useful for comparison. (Hamilton, Robert. “The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea, or Whales.” 1837.)