November 24-25 In Sickness and Health: The Twentieth Century and Healthcare (MS) Week 11 Illegal Remedies: Cures, controversies and control (VB) December 1-2 Revision session for the Seen-Exam (JM) Seminar Topics Week 2 Skills and Preparing for success in essays in the history of drugs and medicines. Methods Week 3 Written Papers: Question What impact did the Death’ plagues ‘Black Infectious 1 that began in Europe in the fourteenth Diseases century have on societies there? Question most cataclysmic event for human ‘The 2 health was Columbus’s landfall on Hispaniola’. Is Roy Porter’s assessment an exaggeration? Week 4 Document Session: Famine Week 5 Written Papers: Question Account for the devastating effects of the Infectious 1 Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Diseases Question Explain the origins and impacts of changing 2 social and medical attitudes towards sexually transmitted diseases 1800. Week 6 Document Session: Alcoholism and Addiction Week 7 Written Papers: Question How and why was work such a potent Chronic Diseases 1 source of disease and ill-health in the period 1850-1950? Question Why has it been so difficult for 2 psychiatrists to treat mental illness? Week 8 Skills and Methods Research in the history of health and medicine Week 9 Written Papers: Question What factors spurred interest in public Society’s responses 1 health during the nineteenth century? Question Has war been good for health and 2 medicine in the twentieth-century? Week 10 Skills and Exams. Methods
November 24-25 In Sickness and Health: The Twentieth Century and Healthcare (MS) Week 11 Illegal Remedies: Cures, controversies and control (VB) December 1-2 Revision session for the Seen-Exam (JM) Seminar Topics Week 2 Skills and Methods Preparing for success in essays in the history of drugs and medicines. Week 3 Written Papers: Infectious Diseases Question 1 What impact did the ‘Black Death’ plagues that began in Europe in the fourteenth century have on societies there? Question 2 ‘The most cataclysmic event for human health was Columbus’s landfall on Hispaniola’. Is Roy Porter’s assessment an exaggeration? Week 4 Document Session: Famine Week 5 Written Papers: Infectious Diseases Question 1 Account for the devastating effects of the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Question 2 Explain the origins and impacts of changing social and medical attitudes towards sexually transmitted diseases 1800. Week 6 Document Session: Alcoholism and Addiction Week 7 Written Papers: Chronic Diseases Question 1 How and why was work such a potent source of disease and ill-health in the period 1850-1950? Question 2 Why has it been so difficult for psychiatrists to treat mental illness? Week 8 Skills and Methods Research in the history of health and medicine Week 9 Written Papers: Society’s responses Question 1 What factors spurred interest in public health during the nineteenth century? Question 2 Has war been good for health and medicine in the twentieth-century? Week 10 Skills and Methods Exams.
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