Feb 28, 2026  
2026-2027 Catalog 
    
2026-2027 Catalog

HIS 267 - Health and Society in Africa


Instructor
Wiemers

Histories of health, healing, and disease control in Africa from c. 1500 to the present.  Explores the ways African people and states have conceived of and responded to relationships between human and natural environment, between individual and collective well-being, and between bodily and social health.

Satisfies a major or minor requirement in History.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies Public Health major and minor requirement.
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement