HR909-7-SP-CO:
Illness and Culture in 18Th-And 19Th-Century Europe
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2023/24
Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies (School of)
Colchester Campus
Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Inactive
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
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04 October 2018
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This module examines medicine from the perspectives of social, cultural and gender history. It considers medicine as a culturally-embedded body of knowledge, a contested field of practice, and a significant source of gendered experience and perception. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical understanding of the theoretical and methodological approaches that inform the historical literature in this field. Case studies are mostly drawn from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but a few are from the twentieth century. Topics will vary from year to year, but will include most of the following: the nature of medical knowledge, the body in medical and social theory, illness and gender, gender and healing, professional identities, the history of the patient, doctor-patient relations, and the social construction of disease.
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General Reading List:
Helen King, Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece (1998), Introduction, chs 1 and 2, pp. 120-1, pp. 205-22, 241-50.
V. Nutton, 'Humoralism', in Bynum and Porter (eds), Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (1993), vol. 1, pp. 281-91.
*Case History: Mrs Jones's fever, Liverpool, 1780 (handout)
*Charles Rosenberg, 'Medical Text and Social Context: Explaining William Buchan's Domestic Medicine', Bulletin of the History of Medicine 57 (1983), 22-42.
William Buchan, 'Of the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases' and 'Of Fevers in General', in his Domestic Medicine (1812, 1st edition 1769), pp. 129-141
*Stanley Reiser, Medicine and the Reign of Technology (Cambridge, 1978), ch. 1.
Cecil Helman, 'Feed a Cold, Starve a fever', in N Black et al., Health and Disease: A Reader (1984), pp. 10-16.
V Rippere, 'The survival of traditional medicine in lay medicine. An empirical approach to the history of medicine', Medical History 25, 411-14.
*Malcolm Nicolson, 'The metastatic theory of pathogenesis and the professional interests of the Eighteenth-Century physician', Medical History 32 (1988), 27-300.
*Gillian Bennett, 'Bosom Serpents and Alimentary Amphibians: a language for sickness', in Marijke Gijswijt-Hostra, H Marland and H de Waardt (eds), Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe (1997), ch. 8.
N. Jewson, 'Medical Knowledge and the Patronage System in 18th Century England', Sociology 8 (1974), 369-85.
1 x 2 hour seminar per week.
The course consists of nine two-hour seminars and a hands-on introduction to using the resources of the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine (London).
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
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- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
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Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Catherine Crawford, email: crawc@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Catherine Crawford
Graduate Administrator, Department of History, Telephone: 01206 872190
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