Health And Healing In Medieval And Early Modern Europe (HIST-0154)

Spring 2026 · HIST 0154 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Medicine in Western Europe from approximately 1100-1700. Key intellectual, social, and cultural themes and trends in pre-modern medicine. Major topics include the development of university medicine from its Greek and Arabic roots through the theoretical upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; medical practice, particularly the diverse types of healers and their relationship with patients; epidemic disease such as plague and syphilis and early public health measures formed in response; the development of hospitals and other medical institutions. Overlapping naturalistic, religious, and magical approaches to disease and healing.

Course codes: HIST-0154, HIST 0154, HIST0154, HIST-154, HIST 154, HIST154, STS-0154, STS 0154, STS0154, STS-154, STS 154, STS154

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