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% |
| 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 medicine.
Evaluate new trends in the history of medicine.
Understand the use of appropriate evidence in formulating historical arguments regarding medicine and society.
Demonstrate through written work an ability to integrate methodological themes into their own research.
Brief description
The module will focus on six key areas of contemporary and foundational interest in the history of medicine, starting with Michel Foucault's classic account in Birth of the Clinic and moving on to patient/practitioner relationships, gender, public health, hospitals, laboratories and scientific medicine and concluding with an overview of public perceptions of medicine and medical practitioners.
Aims
The module is designed as core provision for the MA in History of Medicine. It will introduce students to the key concepts and problems in the current historiography of history of medicine that will provide the basis for further intensive study through option
Content
1. Birth of the Clinic
2. Patients and Practitioners
3. Gender, Sex and Medical Intervention
4. Public Health
5. Medical Spaces
6. Images of 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