HISTORY OF THE HOSPITAL

Discover Hopkins Health Studies 360.118.41

Session I: June 26-July 7

Instructor: Alicia Puglionesi

NOTE: This syllabus is tentative and subject to change. Our field trips depend on the generous cooperation of many people and departments, so we may have to accommodate their scheduling needs. A detailed hourly schedule will be provided on the first day of class.

WEEK 1

Monday

Introductory lecture: Studying medicine's past, present, and future

Field trip to Johns Hopkins Archeological Museum

In-class reading and group activity with ancient Greek and Roman primary sources

Tuesday

Lecture: The Care of Strangers – medicine in America before 1900

Tour of East Baltimore with community activist Glenn Ross

In-class mapping activity: the health landscape of your community

Wednesday

Lecture: The emergence of hospitals – medical and social functions

In-class readings and discussion

Field trip to Da Vinci surgical robot and biomedical engineering department

In-class discussion of Complications Part I

Thursday

FIELD TRIP TO PHILADELPHIA

Mutter Museum and Pennsylvania Hospital

Friday

Lecture: The dream of a world without pain – the history of pain in medicine

In-class discussion of Complications Part II (come to class with reading completed)

Review for quiz

Week 1 quiz

WEEK 2

Monday

Lecture: Johns Hopkins – America's first research hospital

Field trip to Johns Hopkins Hospital Pathology Department

In-class reading activity on primary source cases

Tuesday

Lecture: Medical technology – do devices have politics?

Discussion of assigned reading (Gawande, “Cost Conundrum”; Murray, “How Doctors Die”)

Field trip: Behind the scenes with JHMI facilities and architecture departments

Wednesday

Lecture: Separate but unequal – race and medical care in America

Discussion of assigned reading (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)

Presentation from MD Healthcare For All on politics and economics of healthcare access

Discussion of Gawande, Complications Part III

Field trip to Charm City Clinic with Michael Rogers

Thursday

Lecture: Radical nursing – gendered roles in the caring professions

Field trip to JHMI Nutrition Department

In-class primary source activity (working with primary sources at Welch Medical Library)

Friday

Field trip to JHMI Psychiatry and Neurosciences Department

Review for quiz

Second quiz

Sharing final papers

Medical careers panel and wrap-up