CHLTH 2450 A Global History of Medicine: Worldwide Indigenous Healing
Western Scientific Medicine (or, Biomedicine) has achieved dominance in medical practice throughout the world. Through colonialism, forced education, and genocide, indigenous cultures were coerced into accepting Biomedicine as the only medicine. In the process these global cultures neglected, and eventually lost, most of their original medical ways of knowing. This course focuses on what was “neglected and forgotten” as the west reached near total authority and hegemony in world medicine.