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Bachelor 2024/2025

Society and Health in Historical Perspective

Type: Elective course (History)
Area of studies: History
Delivered by: Department of History
When: 4 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of all HSE University campuses
Language: English
ECTS credits: 4
Contact hours: 56

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course surveys the history of modern medicine 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 emphasize 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

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

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

Course Contents

  • Problems and Methods
  • Modern Health and Medicine
    Перечень инструментов ИИ: Elicit, Consensus, assistant by scite. Планируемое применение: формулировка исследовательского вопроса, поиск и обработка научной литературы, организация и редактирование текста.
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking In-class participation
  • non-blocking Take-home written examination
  • non-blocking A group presentation at the final colloquium
  • non-blocking Analytical reading
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 2nd module
    0.3 * A group presentation at the final colloquium + 0.3 * Analytical reading + 0.3 * In-class participation + 0.1 * Take-home written examination
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • A global history of medicine, , 2018
  • 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

  • An introduction to the social history of medicine: Europe since 1500, Waddington, K., 2011
  • Barkan, S. E. (2017). Health, Illness, and Society : An Introduction to Medical Sociology. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Authors

  • VASILEV PAVEL ANDREEVICH
  • LOSKUTOVA MARINA VIKTOROVNA
  • LYUBAVINA SVETLANA VYACHESLAVOVNA