Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module students should a) develop writing and communication skills b) develop a critical understanding of medicine and social policy as part of broader changes in British and Irish society c) enhance their skills in essay writing, presenting their work to peers and participation in seminars d) develop critical skills through the assessment of a range of historical and inter-disciplinary approaches within the social history and the history of medicine e) enhance your ability to evaluate a range of primary sources and their potential use to historians.
Indicative Module Content:
The content of the module is updated regularly. The main themes covered include:
'Madness in the Eighteenth Century'; 'Bethlem and the Trade in Lunacy'; 'Lunacy Reform and Moral Management c. 1790-1850'; 'The Rise of the Asylum'; 'The Medicalisation of Insanity; Gender and Insanity: Hysteria and Shell-Shock'; 'Criminal Insanity and Psychiatry in the Court-room'; 'Patient Narratives'; 'Themes of Degeneracy and Eugenics'; 'Migration, Ethnicity and Madness'; 'Healing the Mind in the Twentieth Century'; 'Anti-Psychiatry and Care in the Community'.