Program:
Date: November 17th and 18th 2015
Location: Fredrik Holts hus, Room 079
Lecturer: Christoph Gradmann
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: Tosh
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:
Tosh, John. The Pursuit of History. Aims, Methods and new Directions in the Study of Modern History. Harlow: Pearson, 2010 (1984), 1-28.
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).