HIS42940

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the module you should:
• have developed study, writing and communication skills appropriate to level 4
• have developed a critical understanding of the history and historiography of medicine
• be able to assess a range of historical and inter-disciplinary approaches
• be able to critically analyse historical sources and evaluate a range of primary material and their potential use to historians appropriate to level 4

Indicative Module Content:

This module will address topics including:
- the rise of modern medicine
- murder, mutilation and medical knowledge
- disability, freakery, and difference
- the patient’s view of sickness and health
- colonialism, disease and the body
- alternative medicine
- marginalisation: gender and sexuality
- marginalisation: race and ethnicity
- cultural representations of sickness and health

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Assessment Strategy Invalid Option

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback on learning journals is given to the class throughout the trimester, and individually mid-trimester. Feedback on the Creative Response Assignment will be given individually after submission and grading. Feedback on end-of-semester essays is given individually and to the class on drafts and essays plans before final submission, and in writing on Brightspace after submission and grading.