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Slides, Renaissance and Scientific Revolution 1
Slides, Renaissance art, herbals, etc.
Course Schedule
Week 1, Course Introduction:
T (09/08) Course Introduction.
Th (09/10) Overview of the field.
Reading assignment: Kennedy, Introduction and Forward, pp. i - vii.
Week 2, Ancient Medicine.
T (09/15) Before the Classical Age
Reading Assignment: Kennedy, chapters 1 & 2, pp. 1 - 18.
Th (09/17) Greece and Rome (Introduction).
Reading Assignment: Kennedy, chapter 3, pp. 19 - 34.
Week 3, Consulting a Specialist: Joan Cadden
T (09/22) Framing the Question: Antiquity and gender.
Reading Assignment: Cadden, Introduction and chapter 1, pp.
1–53.
Th (09/24) Medieval Issues, Part 1.
Reading Assignment: Cadden, chapter 2, pp. 54–104.
Week 4, Cadden Continued:
T (09/29) Medieval Issues, Part 2. Academic debate.
Reading Assignment: Cadden, chapter 3, pp. 105–165.
Th (10/01) The construction of gender.
Reading Assignment: Cadden, chapter 4, pp. 167–227.
Week 5, Cadden, Concluded:
T(10/06) Implications.
Reading Assignment: Cadden chapter 5 OR chapter 6, as assigned. (Class
will be divided and report on the assigned chapter in discussion.
Th(10/08) Cadden compared, and review for test.
Reading Assignment: Cadden’s conclusion. Kennedy, chapters 5 and
6, pp. 57–78.
Week 6, Test 1:
T (10/13) First test.
Th (10/15) Histriomastix and forging history for the Puritan cause.
Week 7, Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women:
T (10/20) Test 1 returned, Intro. to Filipczak.
Th (10/22) Humoral Theory in culture and art.
Reading Assignment: Filipczak (on reserve) Introduction, and chapters
1&2.
Week 8, Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women:
T (10/27) Humoral Theory in culture and art.
Reading Assignment: Filipczak (on reserve), chapters 3–5,
selections, as assigned.
Th (10/29) Filipczak concluded and Intro. to the Research
Assingment.
Reading Assignment: Filipczak, concluded.
Week 9, Medicine in the Renaissance and Scientific
Revolution, part 1:
T (11/03) Introduction to the Scientific Revolution.
Th (11/05) Medicine in the Scientific Revolution.
Reading Assignment: Kennedy, chapter 7, pp. 79–96.
Week 10, Medicine in the Renaissance and Scientific
Revolution, part 2:
T (11/10) The Herbal: A case study.
Reading Assignment: selections from early modern herbals.
W (11/12) The recipe book and popular medicine.
Reading Assignment: selections from popular medical tracts.
Week 11, “Enlightened” Medicine:
T (11/17) Introduction to the Enlightenment and medicine.
Reading Assignment: Kennedy, chapter 8, pp. 97–119.
Th (11/19) Enlightenment Concluded, and Review for Test 2.
Week 12 Second Test:
T (11/24) Test 2
Week 13 The Century of Modernization, and the three
“A’s”, part 1:
T (12/01) Return of Test 2: Introduction to the 19th Century
TH (12/03) The Century of the Surgeon.
Reading Assignment: Kennedy, chapter 9, pp. 120–147.
Week 14 The Century of Modernization, and the three
“A’s”, part 2:
T(12/08) BOOK REVIEW DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS The Germans.
Reading Assignment: Kennedy, chapter 10, pp. 148–161.
Th(12/10) Medicine, Bacteriology, and Infectious Diseases.
Reading Assignment: Kennedy, chapter 11, pp. 162–173, AND chapter
17, pp. 273–84.
Week 15
T (12/15) The Rise of Medicine
Reading Assignment: Kennedy, chapter 12, pp. 174–193.
Th (12/17) Review. RESEARCH PAPER DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS
FINAL EXAMINATION: Friday, Dec. 18 , 10:00 - 11:55 a.m.