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Department of History
Department of History
Contacts

Address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49 

Postal address: 
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel

Administration
Adrian A. Selin
Department Head – Adrian A. Selin
Evgeniy Anisimov
Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov
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
Shared Images: A History of American Art in the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Chunikhin K.

De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025.

Article
The Russian Civil War after 100 Years: Within and Beyond the Historiographical Front Lines

Alexander V. Reznik.

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2024. Vol. 25. No. 3. P. 644-658.

Book chapter
Individualism and Psychology in the Auto/Biography of Lev Trotsky, 1900–20s

Alexander V. Reznik.

In bk.: Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2024. P. 17-34.

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

All publications
Contacts

Address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49 

Postal address: 
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel

Administration
Adrian A. Selin
Department Head – Adrian A. Selin
Evgeniy Anisimov
Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov
Department of History

Society and Health in Historical Perspective

2024/2025
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
4
ECTS credits
Delivered by:
Department of History
Type:
Elective course
When:
4 year, 1, 2 module

Instructors

Vasilyev, Pavel

Vasilyev, Pavel

Горбатенко Яна Валерьевна

Горбатенко Яна Валерьевна

Course Syllabus

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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

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

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

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

Assessment Elements

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

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

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