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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

Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe. The Deluge of 1919. Eliza Ablovatski, Cambridge & New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021, xii + 302pp., £75.00/$80.00 ebook.

Gužvica S.

Europe-Asia Studies. 2023. Vol. 75. No. 8. P. 1419-1421.

Book chapter

Colonies in Interwar Europe? The Balkan Communist Parties as Precursors of Anticolonialism

Gužvica S.

In bk.: Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts. L.: Routledge, 2023. P. 297-318.

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, 1, 2 module

Instructors

Vasilyev, Pavel

Loskutova, Marina

Full Syllabus

Abstract

This course surveys the history of medical knowledge and practice from antiquity to the early 21st 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.
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
Medical knowledge and practice in the 20th and 21st centuries

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 * Participation in seminars + 0.4 * Take-home written examination + 0.3 * A group presentation at the final colloquium

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

Society and Health in Historical Perspective