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In recent years,
the field of the history of medicine has undergone an important transformation.
Although study of the development of scientific and medical knowledge
remains crucial to the field, studies have increasingly attempted to
assess the changing nature of scientific and medical practices, the
experiences of health and illness, as well as the history of health
policies. These interests are strongly reflected in the research and
teaching aspects of the Program. At the core of the Program's agenda
are studies of how medicine and science evolve from--and are reincorporated
into-a wider social and cultural context; how health care inevitably
leads to complex moral, ethical, and policy issues; and how the determinants
of health and disease are revealed through investigations into the social
and scientific responses to both epidemic and chronic disease. A principal
tenet of the approach fostered in the Program is that historical scholarship
may assist in a more sophisticated understanding of a wide array of
questions and dilemmas in contemporary medicine and science
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