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Study Details: MSc: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
PgDip: 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time
PgCert: 8 months part-time
The MSc in Health History is a research-led postgraduate programme which seeks to introduce students to a range of issues, controversies, debates, and specialist topics in the history of health and medicine. It provides specialist modules, taught by experts in the field; a sources and methods module which engages with both practical and intellectual issues in the history of medicine and of health and healthcare; and the opportunity to carry out an extended piece of original historical research and writing in the form of the dissertation. Students have the opportunity to explore a variety of themes such as:
the development of psychiatry since the 19th century
understandings of meat-eating and vegetarianism
the history of gender, sexuality and health
the rise of regulation for drugs and medicines
the role of film, video and television in the production, communication and contestation of medical and health-related knowledge
how nutrition has been and continues to be one of the most controversial areas of health and medicine
oral history theory and research practices
First or second-class Honours degree, or overseas equivalent, in History or a related discipline
Core modules:
Research Skills, Sources & Methods for Historians.
Optional modules:
Advanced Oral History
Organic Machines, Engineered Environments and Hybrid Natures
Pharmaceuticals, Ethics and Health: 1800-1980
Governing Highs & Health: History & the Control of Drugs, c.1800-1945
Medicine and Warfare, 1800-2000
Food and Health in the West during the 20th Century
Gender, Health and Modern Medicine Since 1800
Work Placement in History
Fleshy Histories: Meat Eating & Meat Avoidance, 1500 to the Present
Mad World: The Politics of Health in the Twentieth Century
Media & Health
No Matter How Small: Children’s Heath Across The British World
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