Our graduate program has two distinct tracks--the Philosophy track and the LPS track--which share a common core of requirements in history of philosophy, logic, ethics, and metaphysics and epistemology. Because each department makes its own admissions decisions, students should apply to the track whose curriculum most closely corresponds to their own interests. The Philosophy track is described here. UCI's Philosophy Department is committed to providing students a well-rounded graduate education, including central areas of contemporary philosophy and a solid foundation in the history of philosophy. Those with interests in mathematics, the natural sciences, or the social sciences are encouraged to take courses in Logic and Philosophy of Science and to include LPS faculty members on their dissertation committees. Our cooperative two-track program provides students the benefits of faculty expertise in a host of areas. <br><br>This course explores health and healing in late medieval and early modern Europe with attention to the way medical practice, practitioners, and disease circulated in an increasingly globalized world. Sufferers and healers worked with models of the body and therapeutics very different from our own. However, healers had to persuade patients of their skills, sufferers had to choose amongst a range of health-care options, and each sought meaning in experience of illness in ways that may not be so far from our own experiences. The course focuses on sites of care (institutions, households, markets), conceptions of disease and health, the transmission of medical knowledge, and the experiences of patients and practitioners. Special attention will be paid to issues of gender in relation to conceptions of the body and the role and experience of practitioners and patients.