Day 1 Room How and why to practice medical history
O9.30-1200 Introduction: History as a science and history of medicine as a subject
Reading: Tosh
13.00-15.00 Why study medical history?
Reading: Duffin
15.00-16.00 What’s the modern history of medicine about?
Reading: Brandt/Gardener
Reading for day one:
Tosh, John (2010 (1984)). The Pursuit of History. Aims, Methods and new Directions in the Study of Modern History. Harlow: Pearson, pp. 1-28.
Duffin. J. (2004). Lovers and Livers. Disease Concepts in History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 1-36.
Brandt, A. M., & Gardner, M. (2000). The golden age of Medicine? In R. Cooter & J. Pickstone (Eds.), Companion to Medicine i the Twentieth Century (pp. 21-37). London and New York: Routledge.
Day 2 Some examples: Histories of sex, gender and the body
09.00-10.30 Knowledge and practice: anatomy and discipline
Reading: Lawrence and Foucault
10.30-12.00 Infection and surgery
Reading: Brandt, Schlich
13.00-14.30 Practical work: Identifying essential reading
14.45-16.00 Presentation of practical work, Evaluation of the PhD course
Reading for day 2:
Brandt A. No Magic Bullet, pp. 3-7; 161-83.
Lawrence S. His and Hers: Male and Female Anatomy in Anatomy Texts for U.S. Medical Students, 1890-1989. Social Science and Medicine 1992; 35: 925-934
Schlich T. The Technological Fix and the Modern Body: Surgery as a Paradigmatic Case. In: Crozier I (ed). 1920-present. The Age of Change (vol 6 of Kalof L, Bynum W. The Cultural History of the Human Body London: Berg Publishers, 2008
Foucault M. The Docile Body. In: Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books, 1995; 135-169.