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pWhat are some of the main issues and fields that defined medical research and practice after 1945? What were the new physical, technological, and conceptual tools that defined the postwar era of medicine? How did new technologies and research endeavors configure new ways of diagnosing disease, monitoring patients, and delivering medical care and therapies? As students consider the rise of genetics and genetic therapy and organ transplantation as well as the broad implementation of electronics and digital computers after 1945, they will also consider the cultural, social, ethical, and policy-related implications of these various innovations that make up the rise of biomedicine. One main goal of the course is to give students an historical understanding—at least from the last eighty years—of why medical care and therapeutic possibilities are what they are today.