Overview
Description
Introduces the thinking behind the medicine and technology of classical and imperial China; focusing on technology and material culture; medicine and the body.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Terms
fall
Core
CO11
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify key historical forces that led to the rise of a distinct therapeutic tradition in China, one that is being widely emulated around the world, as medicine in China is globalized.
- analyze and synthesize primary, secondary, and cultural sources.
- find and use historical scholarship and sources to answer a research question.
- present ideas in a clear and persuasive manner both orally and in writing, in accordance with the ethical principles governing scholarly inquiry.
- analyze how medicine in China is influencing the practice of biomedicine and causing shifts in how patients describe and experience physical distress.