HIST 475

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Introduction to the history of American public health and health policy. Emergence of modern public-health institutions in America; relation of public health to conceptions of disease, social order, and the role of government; emergence and development of public policy issues in public health and medical care, of the environment for the formulation of policy, and the relation of policy to broader issues of social development, incidence of disease, and assumptions about the proper distribution of public and private responsibility.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.