Dr. Wendy Kline Univ. Hall 325 OH: T 12:30-2 and by appt. HIST 395 history of medicine in the archives SPRING 2017 univ hall 319 TR 9:00-10:15 Course Description: In this junior research seminar, students will have the unique opportunity to encounter what historians do and discover why they love to do it. This junior research seminar brings students face to face with archival documents, both at the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, and at the Purdue School of Nursing, as well as with digital collections. Students will conduct original, guided research on areas of public health, medical education, nursing education, and mental health. Purdue is home to many fascinating collections that we will learn about and work with, including the Psychoactive Substance Research Collection, The Maryland Psychiatric Research Center LSD Professional Training Program Study Files, and the history of nursing. We will also be using the new online database just purchased by Purdue, After introductory reading on the Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900. history of public health, nursing, and mental health in the U.S., students will spend class time in the archives learning how to read, interpret, and write about original, unpublished archival documents. Along the way, we will address the following questions: How do ideas about medicine and health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and culture? What role do teachers and universities such as Purdue play in shaping student and public perceptions of health and medicine? What are the risks and benefits of controversial cutting-edge research, such as that on psychoactive substances (like LSD) in changing the field of medicine? Course Objectives: This course encourages students to recognize, most fundamentally, that disease has a history, and that its history is embedded in culture. It also will enable students to develop research skills by utilizing hands-on work with primary source materials. Finally, it aims to provide guidance in the public presentation of original arguments based on archival documents. The course includes a service learning component in the Purdue Archives. Each student will put in approximately 2 hours/ week working with collection materials (either with processing or with developing tweets/ promotional materials about interesting sources and materials), worth 25% of final grade. *This course meets requirements for Purdue's Medical Humanities Certificate. Students interested in the Medical Humanities certificate should review the contact the or contact their academic advisor for more information.
Dr. Wendy Kline Univ. Hall 325 OH: T 12:30-2 and by appt. HIST 395 history of medicine in the archives SPRING 2017 univ hall 319 TR 9:00-10:15 Course Description: In this junior research seminar, students will have the unique opportunity to encounter what historians do and discover why they love to do it. This junior research seminar brings students face to face with archival documents, both at the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, and at the Purdue School of Nursing, as well as with digital collections. Students will conduct original, guided research on areas of public health, medical education, nursing education, and mental health. Purdue is home to many fascinating collections that we will learn about and work with, including the Psychoactive Substance Research Collection, The Maryland Psychiatric Research Center LSD Professional Training Program Study Files, and the history of nursing. We will also be using the new online database just purchased by Purdue, Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900. After introductory reading on the history of public health, nursing, and mental health in the U.S., students will spend class time in the archives learning how to read, interpret, and write about original, unpublished archival documents. Along the way, we will address the following questions: How do ideas about medicine and health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and culture? What role do teachers and universities such as Purdue play in shaping student and public perceptions of health and medicine? What are the risks and benefits of controversial cutting-edge research, such as that on psychoactive substances (like LSD) in changing the field of medicine? Course Objectives: This course encourages students to recognize, most fundamentally, that disease has a history, and that its history is embedded in culture. It also will enable students to develop research skills by utilizing hands-on work with primary source materials. Finally, it aims to provide guidance in the public presentation of original arguments based on archival documents. The course includes a service learning component in the Purdue Archives. Each student will put in approximately 2 hours/ week working with collection materials (either with processing or with developing tweets/ promotional materials about interesting sources and materials), worth 25% of final grade. *This course meets requirements for Purdue's Medical Humanities Certificate. Students interested in the Medical Humanities certificate should review the contact the or contact their academic advisor for more information.
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