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Department
Educational programmes

Address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49

Postal address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel

Administration

Department Head – Adrian A. Selin

Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov

Public lectures by the faculty of the department of history

Public lectures

Research

About the Department

The Department of History was created in 2012. The overarching goal of the department is systematic development of the field of global, comparative, and transnational history as a potent tool of overcoming the limitations of national history canon, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of social sciences and humanities, and brining new public relevance to historical knowledge. The department mission includes the development of new type of historical undergraduate and graduate education in Russia and pioneering new research fields in Russian historiography in dialogue with the global historical profession.

Publications

Book

Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989

Gökarıksel S., Gontarska O., Hilmar T. et al.

L.: Routledge, 2023.

Article

Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia: An Analysis of Expert Interviews

Olga Malinova.

Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 2024. P. 1-25.

Book chapter

The Stolbovo Treaty and Tracing the Border in Ingria in 1617–1618

Adrian Selin.

In bk.: Sweden, Russia, and the 1617 Peace of Stolbovo. Vol. 14. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2024. P. 99-118.

Working paper

The Image of the Past in Ciro Spontone’s ‘Historia Della Transilvania’

Khvalkov E., Levin F., Кузнецова А. Д.

Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021

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Delivered by:: Department of History

Type:: Elective course

When:: 4 year, 3 module

Instructor

Loskutova, Marina

Full Syllabus

Abstract

This course surveys the history of medical knowledge and practice from antiquity to the early 20th century. The course will explore a number of ongoing themes: race, bodily difference, and medicine; medicine and the environment; women, gender, and medicine; the history of the body; the history of sexuality; and the close connections between forms of social order and forms of medical knowledge.

Learning Objectives

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

Expected Learning Outcomes

Student will be able to read analytically academic literature for seminars, summarise it, highlight the main arguments, and critically evaluate them
Students will be able to discuss academic literature during a seminar and participate in a group discussion in English
Student will be able to read academic literature for seminars, discuss it during a seminar and participate in a group discussion in English.

Course Contents

Introduction
Health and disease from a historical perspective. The practitioners' perspective and critical social history of medicine.
Health and disease in antiquity
Paleopathology and paleomedicine. Medicine in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. Medicine and health in the Graeco-Roman world.
Health, illness and disease in the middle ages: Europe and the Islamic world.
Health, illness and disease in the middle ages: Europe and the Islamic world.
Medicine and the Enlightenment.
Medicine and the Enlightenment.

Assessment Elements

Participation in seminars
Short oral or written summary
The exam

Interim Assessment

Interim assessment (3 module)
0.2 * Participation in seminars + 0.4 * Short oral or written summary + 0.4 * The exam

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

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

Recommended Additional Bibliography

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

Society and Health in Historical Perspective