Society and Health in Historical Perspective

2023/2024

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

4

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of History

Course type:

Elective course

When:

4 year, 1, 2 module

Instructors

Vasilyev, Pavel

Loskutova, Marina

Malinova, Olga Y.

Малинова Ольга Юрьевна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course surveys the history of modern medicine and examines the role of medicine and health in the contemporary society. It introduces the students to a variety of ways of looking at the subject, including the social history of medicine, medical humanities, and science & technology studies (STS). The course will emphasize the close connections between forms of social order and forms of medical knowledge. Data culture level = 0.0.2 (Basic. Data analysis). A separate block of classes will be devoted to the potential of neural networks and generative AI as 1) a key component of modern biomedical innovation and 2) a tool for organizing and conducting research in the field of health humanities.

Learning Objectives

• Students will understand the fundamental questions and methods of the history of medicine.
• Students will develop critical skills of assessing medicine’s complex role in contemporary society.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Discuss academic literature during a seminar and participate in a group discussion in English
• Create and deliver a persuasive presentation based on required readings and additional literature
• Analyze and compare the views of different authors on the same subject

Course Contents

• Medical knowledge and practice from antiquity to the early 20th century
• Modern Health and Medicine
  Перечень инструментов ИИ: Elicit, Consensus, assistant by scite. Планируемое применение: формулировка исследовательского вопроса, поиск и обработка научной литературы, организация и редактирование текста.

Assessment Elements

• Participation in seminars
• Take-home written examination
  A student chooses one question out of three and produces a written answer (1-2 pages long). Failure to produce an essay that is at least 0,5 page long will result in an additional 1 point penalty. Failure to submit the essay by the agreed-upon deadline will result in an additional 1 point penalty for every day the essay is late.
• A group presentation at the final colloquium
  Usually, the presentation would be graded as a group project for which one grade is issued to all the participants. Time limit for the presentation is set at 20 minutes. Failure to observe the agreed-upon time limit will result in a 1 point penalty.

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 2nd module
  0.3 * A group presentation at the final colloquium + 0.3 * Participation in seminars + 0.4 * Take-home written examination

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• A global history of medicine, , 2018
• Bynum, W. F. (2008). The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=363643
• Porter, R. (2001). Bodies Politic : Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. London: Reaktion Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=440604

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, & Jennifer Wallis. (2019). Anxious Times : Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Pittsburgh Press.
• An introduction to the social history of medicine: Europe since 1500, Waddington, K., 2011
• Ancient medicine, Nutton, V., 2013
• Barkan, S. E. (2017). Health, Illness, and Society : An Introduction to Medical Sociology. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Faye Getz. (1998). Medicine in the English Middle Ages. Princeton University Press.
• Laura M. Zucconi. (2019). Ancient Medicine : From Mesopotamia to Rome. Eerdmans.
• Wear, A. (2000). Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680. Cambridge University Press.
• История и философия медицины : научные революции XVII - XIX веков, Степин, В. С., 2017

Authors

• LYUBAVINA SVETLANA VYACHESLAVOVNA
• LOSKUTOVA MARINA VIKTOROVNA
• VASILEV PAVEL ANDREEVICH