STS 1451

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STS 1451
Body, Mind, and Health: Historical Perspectives for Future Professionals

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

A course in the social history of medicine that examines the ways in which medicine and its practitioners have impacted-and been impacted by-American social, political, cultural, and economic development. The course focuses on the changing nature of disease, the medical profession past and present as well as historical and contemporary issues in public health.


Enrollment Priority Open to: high school students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SU, 2024SU, 2023SU, 2022SU

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Syllabi: none

  •   Three Week - Three. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1442 STS 1451   LEC 001

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    • Jul 13 - Jul 31, 2026

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  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous

    This Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/.
    Enrollment open to: Precollege Studies Online program students. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/precollege/program/online.