Welcome to the Center for the History of Medicine
Medicine is a profession deeply rooted in a sense of history. For
centuries physicians have acted as historians -- of their patients
and of their own skills and ideals. As an art, medicine is ancient
and ageless, easing the burdens of illness and expanding the
boundaries of human caring. As a science, modern medicine has further
-- and dramatically -- extended the power and promise of timeless
healing practices.
Today, scholars in wide-ranging fields engage questions related to
medicine, including changing notions of the body, experiences of
illness, social stigma, cross-cultural understandings of disease, and
epidemiology. The Center for the History of Medicine at Indiana
University offers courses, lectures, and related events to members of
the University community. It is concerned with the full range of traditional
and modern medicine, disease, and illness: exploring the new and the known in the
past and bringing to the public recent research on the fascinating people, events, ideas
and images which define medical issues from antiquity to the present.
Spring 2004 Lecture Series: Medicine in War
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