Society and Health in Historical Perspective

2024/2025

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

Горбатенко Яна Валерьевна

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

• Problems and Methods
• 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

• In-class participation
• Take-home written examination
• A group presentation at the final colloquium
• Analytical reading

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.3 * A group presentation at the final colloquium + 0.3 * Analytical reading + 0.3 * In-class participation + 0.1 * Take-home written examination

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• A global history of medicine, , 2018
• 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

• An introduction to the social history of medicine: Europe since 1500, Waddington, K., 2011
• Barkan, S. E. (2017). Health, Illness, and Society : An Introduction to Medical Sociology. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Authors

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