Schedule for PhD training in Medical history
Date: 3rdd and 4th March 2014
Fredrik Holts hus, Room 218
Lecturer: Anne Kveim Lie
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
What is disease? What is the body?
Reading: Duffin, Kuriyama
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, Allan, & 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.
Kuriyama. Shigehisa (1999). The Expressiveness of the Body and the divergence of Greek
and Chinese medicine. New York, Zone Books. Preface, pp. 7-16; ch. V, “Blood and Life”,
pp. 195-233.
Day 2 Some examples: Histories of sex, gender and the body. Practical work.
2
09.00-10.45
Knowledge and practice: anatomy, surgery, infection
Reading: Lawrence, Schlich, Vaughan
11.00-11.45
How to find sources? How to write a medical history assignment?
1145-1245
Lunch
13.00-14.30
Practical work: Identifying essential reading for assignment
14.45-16.00
Presentation of practical work, Evaluation of the PhD course
Reading for day 2:
Megan Vaughan, Curing their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness, Read Chapter 6, “Syphilis
and Sexuality: The Limits of Colonial Medical Power,” pp. 129 – 154.
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 )
Duffin J. History of medicine. A Scandalously short introduction Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2011. Read ch 16: Sleuting and science: how to research a question in medical
history (428-449).
Suggested additional reading:
Jan Golinski, Making Natural Knowledge. Constructivism and the History of Science
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Frank Huisman, and John Harley Warner, eds., Locating Medical History. The Stories and
Their Meanings (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
John V. Pickstone, Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Roy Porter, ed. The Cambridge History of Medicine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006).
Charles E. Rosenberg, and Janet Golden, eds., Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History
(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992).