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Past Courses

Past courses the Cedars-Sinai History of Medicine Program offered.

Date & Time	Courses	Instructor
April 9 – May 7, 2025 (Wednesdays, 5-6pm PT)	Lecture: "The Making of a Sex-Based Specialty: A History of Obstetrics and Gynecology"	Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD
February 12 – March 19, 2025 (Wednesdays, 5-6pm PT)	Medical Experimentation: Evidence, Investigators and Ethics Syllabus (PDF)	Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD and Sari J. Siegel, PhD
October 30 - December 11, 2024 (Wednesdays 5-6:30pm PT)	A History of Medical Education Syllabus (PDF)	Gideon Manning, PhD and Christin Zurbach, PhD
May 1–June 5, 2024 (Wednesdays)	A History of Surgery Syllabus (PDF) Syllabus (PDF)	Gideon Manning, PhD, Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD, Rena Selya PhD, MLIS, and Sari J. Siegel, PhD
October 18–November 29, 2023 (Wednesdays) No class on November 22	A History of Psychiatry Syllabus (PDF)	Gideon Manning, PhD and Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD
September 6–October 11, 2023 (Wednesdays)	Doctors Across Borders: Refugee Physicians and Scientists in History Syllabus (PDF)	Rena Selya, PhD, MLIS and Sari J. Siegel, PhD
March 2–April 6, 2023 (Thursdays)	Medicine and the Five Senses Syllabus (PDF)	Gideon Manning, PhD
Jan. 12-Feb. 16, 2023 (Thursdays)	History of Nursing Syllabus (PDF)	Rena Selya, PhD, MLIS
Oct. 12–Nov. 16, 2022 (Wednesdays)	The History of Women in Medicine Link to The History of Women in Medicine Syllabus (PDF)	Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD and Devon Golaszewski, PhD
Sept. 1–Oct. 6, 2022 (Thursdays)	The Jewish Medical Tradition: From the Bible to the Recent Past Link to The Jewish Medical Tradition: From the Bible to the Recent Past Syllabus (PDF)	Sari J. Siegel, PhD
April 21-May 26, 2022 (Thursdays)	Race, Medicine and the Roots of Health Disparities Link to Race, Medicine and the Roots of Health Disparities Syllabus (PDF)	Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD
March 3-April 7, 2022 (Thursdays)	History of Pathology Link to History of Pathology Syllabus (PDF)	Gideon Manning, PhD, and Stephen Geller, MD
Jan. 12-Feb. 16, 2022 (Wednesdays)	Codes of Medical Ethics Across Centuries and Around the World Link to Codes of Medical Ethics Across Centuries and Around the World Syllabus (PDF)	Sari J. Siegel, PhD, and Stuart Finder, PhD
Oct. 13-Nov. 17, 2021 (Wednesdays)	Epidemics, Medicine and Society Link to Epidemics, Medicine and Society Syllabus (PDF)	Gideon Manning, PhD
Sept. 2-Oct. 7, 2021 (Thursdays); class on September 16 was canceled in observance of Yom Kippur	Incurables to COVID-19: The Evolution of Cedars-Sinai as a Modern Hospital Link to Incurables to COVID-19: The Evolution of Cedars-Sinai as a Modern Hospital (PDF)	Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD
May 26-June 30, 2021 (Wednesdays)	Medical (Mal)Practices Under the Nazi Regime Link to Medical (Mal)Practices Under the Nazi Regime Syllabus (PDF)	Sari J. Siegel, PhD

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