The following suggestions are for broad topics; for many, you will have to narrow the focus to a specific subtheme.  Also, please note that you are not limited to these subjects; if you think of another subject that interests you, please discuss it with the instructor.

The Plague of Athens (and the problem of identifying historic diseases)

Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

Graeco-Roman Medicine and Early Christianity

Medicine in the Middle Ages

Medieval Arabic Medicine and Surgery

The History of Epilepsy (choose a focus for your research)

Saints and Medicine

The Social and Economic Effects of the Black Death

Leprosy in Medieval Europe

"New Diseases" in the Renaissance

Medieval and Renaissance Hospitals

The Renaissance Debate over the Origins of Syphilis

The History of Midwifery in the Middle Ages (or in Early Modern Europe)

Medical Humanism in the Renaissance (choose a specific humanist, or a theme relating to revival of classical medicine)

Paracelsian Medicine

Vaccination in Colonial New England

Disease and the Industrial Revolution

Cholera in 19th Century America

The Discovery of the Germ Theory of Disease (focus on Pasteur, Koch, or another figure; or focus on a specific subtheme)

Public Health in 19th Century America

The Reform of Nursing in the 19th Century

Tropical Diseases and Medicine (choose a disease or a region)

Early American Hospitals

Missionaries and Leprosy in the 19th Century

Childhood Diseases in History

Tuberculosis in the 19th Century

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

The Eugenics Movement in the U.S. (or other country)

Medical Experiments in Nazi Germany

Tobacco and Cancer:  research and/or political aspects