Health care reform is in the news every day, and everyone has an opinion on why the system is broken, how to fix it, who should have access to good medical care, under what circumstances, and what constitutes "good care" in the first place. This online, multi-format course will consider what it has meant to be a good patient or a good doctor at various points in American history, who was included-and excluded-in each group, how medicine became professionalized, the meanings ascribed to human bodies across time and social contexts, and how people have organized around issues of individual or public health. As such, it will be organized around topical units within the gendered history of medicine and health in the United States, each containing several readings and a film. Students will interactively engage with a range of primary sources, watch presentations and related films, have the opportunity to ask the professor questions and seek assistance during designated virtual "office hours" via Skype, and participate in online moderated discussions of the assigned readings and films, and at the end of each unit, of the questions it raised about gender, bodies, and health.