Ancient Medicine

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Course Description

Contemporary medical practice traces its origins to the creation of scientific medicine by Greek doctors such as Hippocrates and Galen. Is this something of which modern medicine can be proud? The scientific achievements and ethical limitations of ancient medicine when scientific medicine was no more than another form of alternative medicine. Scientific medicine competed in a marketplace of ideas where the boundaries between scientific and social aspects of medicine were difficult to draw.

Grading Basis

ROP - Letter or Credit/No Credit

Min

3

Max

4

Course Repeatable for Degree Credit?

No

Course Component

Lecture

Enrollment Optional?

No

This course has been approved for the following WAYS

Social Inquiry (SI)

Does this course satisfy the University Language Requirement?

No

Programs

CLASSICS123 is a completion requirement for:
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