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HIST429-12W (C) Whole Year 2012
Social History of Medicine

0.2500 EFTS
20 Feb 2012 - 11 Nov 2012 		↓Other occurrences

Description

An introduction to the flourishing sub-disciplines of social history of medicine and health history.

This course focuses on issues of health, race and sexuality in the Asia Pacific region within the broader historiography of the social history of medicine.  Drawing on examples from India and the South Pacific region and focussing on nineteenth and twentieth century colonial and post-colonial periods the course considers the role of health, disease and medicine in the development of both personal and national histories.

Topics for discussion include the encounter between colonial and traditional medical systems, the contribution of health and medical ideas to concepts of race, military medicine, particularly the sexual health of the army, regulation of fertility, state involvement in childbith and women's health and the history of the patient.

The course will be taught by seminar and there will be plenty of opportunity for students to pursue their own research interests and to suggest seminar topics.

Pre-requisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School.

Timetable

Lectures
Streams Day Time Where Notes
Stream 01 Tuesday 9:00am-11:00am History 311 20 Feb - 1 Apr,
23 Apr - 3 Jun,
9 Jul - 19 Aug,
3 Sep - 14 Oct

Course Coordinator

Jane Buckingham

Assessment

Two essays each worth 40% and one seminar presentation worth 20%.

Textbooks

Preliminary reading:
David Arnold, Colonizing the Body, Berkeley, California University Press, 1993.
Michael Worboys, Spreading germs: disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Audry Aumua, Pacific health in New Zealand: our stories, Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Health, 2003.
Or any other work on the social history of medicine particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Course links

Library portal

Fees

Domestic fee $1,502.00
International fee $6,100.00


For further information see School of Humanities.

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