Science, Medicine and Religion – History of Science/History of Medicine 331
This course explores the complex and often perplexing historical issues raised by three overlapping arenas of human expression: science, medicine, and religion. We begin with asking some broad questions about the place of scientific and medical inquiry within a variety of religious contexts, including ancient Greece, the Islamic world, and Christianity in western Europe. We then focus on debates specific to particular domains of scientific and medical inquiry, ranging from the medicalization of monstrous births and the religious implications of Copernicanism to natural theology, evolutionary theory, and the efficacy of intercessory prayer.
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