Module Information
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | Introductory seminar + 6 x 2 hr. seminars |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 2 X 3,500 WORD ESSAYS | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate an understanding of relevant themes and approaches in the history of medical marketplaces.
Evaluate new trends in the history of medical consumption.
Understand the use of appropriate evidence in formulating historical arguments regarding medical marketplaces
Demonstrate through written work an ability to integrate methodological themes into their own research.
Brief description
This module investigates the relationship between medical consumers and practitioners in terms of a medical marketplace as an approach to understanding the ways medical practices have been embedded in consumer culture during the early modern and modern periods. It will draw on a range of literature and a variety of examples, from both orthodox and heterodox medical practices and relationships, to suggest how looking at medicine from this perspective provides a useful corrective to the usual heroic narratives of medical progress. It will emphasize the multiplicity of competing models of medical practices and institutions throughout this period.
Aims
The module is an option module designed for use in the History of Medicine MA programme. It is intended to introduce students to the relevant literature on medical marketplaces and the evolving historical relationship between practitioners and patients in that field and give an overview of relevant themes and directions in the current practice of the history of medicine.
Content
1. Physicians, surgeons and apothecaries
2. Quackery in 18th century culture
3. Anatomy of a reformed profession
4. Generalists, specialists, quacks
5. Commodifying Victorian health
6. Public and private medicine
Individual tutorials for pre-essay preparation and feedback (2hrs)
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | Through discussion of applicability of statistical data to understanding aspects of the history of medicine. |
| Communication | Through seminar discussion and essay writing. Latter only is formally assessed. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | By guided reflection during seminars and feedback sessions following submission of written work. |
| Information Technology | Through data retrieval exercises for research purposes and word-processing for essay writing purposes. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Through furthering understanding of the discipline of history of medicine and the opportunities for research that it offers. |
| Problem solving | By understanding how historians of medicine employ a variety of different methodological approaches towards understanding problems within their field. |
| Research skills | By learning how to identify appropriate primary and secondary sources and applying that material to their work. |
| Subject Specific Skills | By enhancing methodological understanding of the history of medicine and an awareness of key texts and approaches. |
| Team work | Through seminar work. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7