| Course title | Social History of Medicine |
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| Course code | UHV/EMEDI |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 5 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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1) Anthropology of the body: The body as a substance, machine, genetic information or construction of a culture Reading: Geurts, Culture and the Senses. Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community, Berkley 2002, p. 228-235. 2) Philosophical concepts and basic theoretical approaches of cultural anthropology to human body Reading: Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, London 2013, p. 133-149. 3) Embodiment, madness and the healing of evil spirits Reading: Csordas, Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology, Ethos 18 (1990), p. 5-47. 4) Physician as an institution. The doctor and a relationship with his patient Reading: Porter, The Patinet´s View. Doing Medical History from Below, Theory and Society 14 (1985), p. 175-181. 5) Medicine and women. Social construct of masculinity and femininity, biological nature of the social and gender determinations of health Reading: Shorter, A History of Women´s Bodies, New Haven 1982, p. 4-17. 6) Epidemics - plague, syphilis, black pox Reading: Showalter, Sexual Anarchy, London 2010, p. 188-189. 7) Disease as a stigma - tuberculosis, gout, nervousness, obesity Reading: Porter - Rousseau, Gout. The Patrician Malady, New Haven 1998, p. 71-73. 8) Discursive approaches to the "diseases" of 19th century, onania, hypochondria, hysteria Reading: Stengers, Masturbation: The history of a great terror, New York 2001, p.53-59. 9) Historical concepts of pain Reading: Scarry, The Body in Pain. The Making and Unmaking of the World, New York 1985, p. 25-59. 10) Alternative methods of treatment. Homeopathy, mesmerism, hydropathy. Acceptance of the non-conventional principles by contemporary medicine Reading: Dinges, Medical Pluralism and Homoeopathy in India and Germany (1810-2010), Stuttgart 2014, p. 7-30. 11) Medical treatment and space - public spaces, hospitals, spas Reading: Casey, From space to place in contemporary health care, Social science & Medicine 56 (2003), p. 2245-2247. 12) Futures of medicine Reading: Bynum (et al.), Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000, Cambridge 2006, p. 52-81.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Demonstration, Projection |
| Learning outcomes |
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Medicine is more than a way of research and treatment or creating of scientific concepts. It also affects society. The history of recent development of medical culture must be understand in broad scope. Thirteen selected topics will give an account of ideas, social relations, political economy and individual reactions, which influenced the development in medical field. The main objective of the course is to introduce the last two centuries of the development of Western medicine and medical treatment. Lectures will give an explanations, for why medicine developed as it did, becoming one of the most important part of contemporary culture.
The students will be familiar with the methods and results of research in contemporary social history of medicine and history and anthropology of the body. The objective of the workshop in each lesson is aimed also on the developing of participants skills of critical thinking and the ability of analysis and interpretation of the historical text. |
| Prerequisites |
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Willingness to active parcitipate in debates. Comunication in English.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Systematic monitoring
Lessons will take the form of a debate about specific problems, for that is for students necessary to prepare on each lesson on the basis of specified text (will be available through the web sources). Essential will be an active participation in debate during the seminar. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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