Timeplan

 

Schedule for PhD training in Medical history (HES9320/MF9230)

 

Date: November 21st and 22nd 2016

Fredrik Holts hus, Room 079 (basement)

 

Lecturers:       Christoph Gradmann; Anne Kveim Lie

 

Day 1              How and why to practice medical history

 

09.00-11.00     Introduction: History as a science and history of medicine as a subject

                        Reading: Farge

11.15-12.00     Looking at 500 years of medical history from hospitals to clinics. Part I.

                        Reading: Porter

12.00-13.00     Lunch

13.00-14.30     Looking at 500 years of medical history from hospitals to clinics, Part II.

                        Reading: Porter

14.45-16.00     Finding the historical in your project

 

Reading for day one:

            Farge, Arlette. The Allure of the Archives. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013, 1-17; 79-113.

Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006., 176-210.

 

 

Suggested additional reading

Brandt, Allan M, and Martha Gardner. "The golden age of Medicine?" In Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century, edited by Roger Cooter and John Pickstone, 21-37. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.

Howell, Joel D. "Hospitals." In Ways of knowing: a new history of science, technology and medicine, edited by John V. Pickstone, 503-518. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

 

Day 2              An example: Does Global Health have a history?

 

09.00-10.30     Case study: Looking at the history of the Global Health.
Reading: Vaughan; Cueto/Brown/Fee; Livingstone

                        Background reading: Manton

10.45-11.30     How to find sources of historical information? How to write a medical history assignment?

                        Reading: Duffin, A scandalously short introduction, ch 16

11.45-12.30     Practical work: Identifying essential reading for the assignment

12.30-13.30     Lunch

13.30-15.00     Global Health and the neoliberal age

Reading: Birn, Crane

15.15-16.00:    Final discussion. Evaluation of the PhD course

 

 

Reading for day 2:

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "The stages of international (global) health: Histories of success or successes of history?" Global Public Health 4, no. 1 (2009): 50-68.

Brown, Theodore M., Marcos Cueto, and Elizabeth Fee. "The World Health Organisation and the Transition from International to Global Health." American Journal of Public Health 96 (2006): 62-72.

Crane, Johanna. "Scrambling for Africa? Universities and global health." The Lancet 9775 (2011): 1388-1390.

Duffin, Jacalyn. History of medicine: a scandalously short introduction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Read ch 16: Sleuting and science: how to research a question in medical history (428-449).

Livingston, Julie. "The next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward." In When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health, edited by Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna, 182-206. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Vaughan, Megan. Syphilis in Colonial East and Central Africa: The Social Construction of an Epidemic. In Terrence Ranger, Paul Slack Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence, Cambridge: CUP 1992, 269-302.

 

Suggested additional reading:

Frank Huisman, and John Harley Warner, eds., Locating Medical History. The Stories and Their Meanings (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

John, Manton. "Global Health." In Public Health in History, edited by Virginia Berridge, Martin Gorsky and Alex Mold, 179-194. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, 2011.

John V. Pickstone, Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

 

 

 

 

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