Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Общество и здоровье в исторической перспективе
Статус:
Курс по выбору (История)
Кто читает:
Департамент истории
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Когда читается:
4-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Контактные часы:
56
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course surveys the history of medical knowledge and practice from antiquity to the early 21st century and examines the role of medicine and health in the contemporary society. It introduces the students to a variety of ways of looking at the subject, including the social history of medicine, medical humanities, and science & technology studies (STS). The course will explore a number of ongoing themes: race, bodily difference, and medicine; medicine and the environment; and the close connections between forms of social order and forms of medical knowledge. Data culture level = 0.0.2 (Basic. Data analysis). A separate block of classes will be devoted to the potential of neural networks and generative AI as 1) a key component of modern biomedical innovation and 2) a tool for organizing and conducting research in the field of health humanities.
Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the fundamental questions and methods of the history of medicine.
- Students will develop critical skills of assessing medicine’s complex role in contemporary society.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Discuss academic literature during a seminar and participate in a group discussion in English
- Create and deliver a persuasive presentation based on required readings and additional literature
- Analyze and compare the views of different authors on the same subject
Course Contents
- Problems and Methods
- Medical knowledge and practice from antiquity to the early 20th century
- Health and Medicine in Contemporary HistoryПеречень инструментов ИИ: Elicit, Consensus, assistant by scite. Планируемое применение: формулировка исследовательского вопроса, поиск и обработка научной литературы, организация и редактирование текста.
Assessment Elements
- Participation in seminarsStudents consult pre-assigned materials (scientific articles, primary sources) at home, and in the seminar they answer questions about the materials and discuss what they have learned.
- Take-home written examinationA student chooses one question out of three and produces a written answer (1000-2000 words). Failure to produce an essay that is at least 1000 words long will result in an additional 1 point penalty. Failure to submit the essay by the agreed-upon deadline will result in an additional 1 point penalty for every day the essay is late.
- A group presentation at the final colloquiumUsually, the presentation would be graded as a group project for which one grade is issued to all the participants. Time limit for the presentation is set at 15 minutes. Failure to observe the agreed-upon time limit will result in a 1 point penalty.
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.4 * A group presentation at the final colloquium + 0.3 * Participation in seminars + 0.3 * Take-home written examination
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A global history of medicine, , 2018
- Bynum, W. F. (2008). The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=363643
- Porter, R. (2001). Bodies Politic : Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. London: Reaktion Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=440604
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, & Jennifer Wallis. (2019). Anxious Times : Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Pittsburgh Press.
- An introduction to the social history of medicine: Europe since 1500, Waddington, K., 2011
- Ancient medicine, Nutton, V., 2013
- Barkan, S. E. (2017). Health, Illness, and Society : An Introduction to Medical Sociology. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Faye Getz. (1998). Medicine in the English Middle Ages. Princeton University Press.
- Laura M. Zucconi. (2019). Ancient Medicine : From Mesopotamia to Rome. Eerdmans.
- Wear, A. (2000). Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680. Cambridge University Press.
- История и философия медицины : научные революции XVII - XIX веков, Степин, В. С., 2017