HIST 211 Medicine and the African American Experience
This course provides an overview of the experiences of African Americans with medicine. Beginning with the eighteenth century, this course will cover the ways the medical community viewed African Americans, and how medical science contributed to modern concepts of race. We will discuss the experimentation on African-American women during the early years of gynecology, as well as eugenics. The course will conclude with the 21st century, including controversies over racial difference in treating pain.
Course Type
Honors