Straightening up the records: history not only taught, but required at UCSF.

The story continues! After our post yesterday on this blog on the necessary correction to Rick Santorum's statement that UC campuses, including UCSF, do not teach American history, an official press release just came out today with additional clarifications. In particular, in the article by Jason Bardi reports that after hearing MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night pointing out that only one UC campus does not teach history — UCSF, Professor of history of the health sciences Dorothy Porter immediately sent Maddow an email to correct the facts. The email sorted the desired effect, and the SF Chronicle indeed reported yesterday that 'history is well and alive' at the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at UCSF. This message was reinforced today with the interviews by Jason Bardi for UCSF news to professor Brian Dolan, a vice chair of the department, and the director of the graduate programs in history of health sciences, and to professor Nancy Milliken, vice dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, director of the UCSF Center of Excellence in Women's Health and acting chair of the DAHSM. As noted by Dolan, American History is not only taught, but is required for the History of Health Sciences graduate program, and UCSF is, in fact, the only campus within the entire UC system that offers a doctoral degree in the history of the health sciences.