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This interdisciplinary seminar will be synchronously co-taught by scholars at Rutgers and Johns Hopkins. The subject matter lies between the history of medicine and the history of architecture. We hope to engage you in a range of issues related to space and healthcare by surveying building types such as hospitals, maternity hospitals, nurses’ housing, lunatic asylums, prisons and dormitories. We will explore architects who worked closely with doctors and vice versa. We will consider issues of surveillance, race, and gender. Aspects of contagion, quarantine, and the history of public health will also enter our discussions. The importance of therapeutic architecture today will be the last subject before the student presentations. The current global health emergency, as related to past pandemics, will be a springboard for our weekly discussions.