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HISTORY OF HEALTH FRAUD

First Year StudiesGeneral Studies
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Subject Code

GEN

Course Number

1056

Department(s)

First Year Studies

Course Description

In the last thirty years, we've seen the polarization of "alternative," "complementary" and "integrative" medicine, modalities commonly referred to as "health fraud" in the 1970s. How did this marketing revolution come about, and why do people reject medicine for magical thinking?

Course Attributes

First Year Seminars, Historical Consciousness -H

Units

4