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ordered PBC fall ’09:
Research Workshops: CollPhyPhil, PaHosp, Drexel?
K. Park, ./Secrets of Women/
S. Kuriyama, /The Expressiveness of the Body …/
W. Anderson, /Colonial Pathologies/
Allan Brandt, /The Cigarette Century/
Priscilla Wald, /Contagious/
C.B. Valencius, /The Health of the Country/
F. Huisman and J.H. Warner, eds., /Locating Medical History/
R. Aronowitz, /Making Sense of Illness/
B. Duden, /The Woman Beneath the Skin/
L.T. Ulrich, /A Midwife's Tale/
C. Rosenberg, /The Care of Strangers/
P. Starr, /The Social Transformation of American Medicine/
H. Marks, /The Progress of Experiment/
Department of the History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2007
HSSC 503:
Current Issues in the History of Medicine
Wednesday 2-5 pm / David S. Barnes337 Logan Hall / 323 Logan Hall
Office Hours: MW 10-11, T 4-5 / (215) 898-8210
or by appointment /
Description:
A strategic survey of the historiography of medicine, covering a wide chronological and geographic range. Goals of the course:
- intensive analysis of selected scholarly approaches and methodologies that have characterized important work on the social and historical study of medicine and health;
- systematic reflection on teaching strategies in the field, including close monitoring and discussion of the parallel undergraduate survey course, HSOC/STSC 002 ("Medicine in History");
- critical analysis of the (too often unexamined) details of scholarly practice, including citation, stylistic conventions, rhetorical strategies, and the unwritten rules of academic polemics;
- an ongoing conversation regarding the practicalities of academic training in graduate school, ranging from "how to read" to "how to attend a scholarly conference."
Requirements:
[Note: All students are expected to audit HSOC 002: “Medicine in History,” TTh 10:30-11:50, 402 Logan Hall]
• assigned readings, attendance, and participation in discussion;
• discussion questions based on assigned readings, submitted by e-mail prior to class meetings;
• one short paper on scholarly citation practices, 5-7 pages;
• the design of a pedagogical web site, including interpretive essays.
Readings: Assigned books are available for purchase at Penn Book Center. Articles and additional readings will be provided through the History and Sociology of Science Department’s informal reserve area in the third floor lounge, Logan Hall, and on Blackboard.
Assigned Readings
WEEK 1
September 5
Introduction and Overview
(no assigned readings)
WEEK 2
September 12
Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner, eds., Locating Medical History (chapters 1, 7, 8, 13,14, 16)
WEEK 3
September 19
Shigehisa Kuriyama, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (all)
WEEK 4
September 26
Barbara Duden, The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor and His Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (all)
Thomas Laqueur, review of Woman Beneath the Skin, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine
WEEK 5
October 3
Conevery Bolton Valencius, The Health of the Country (all)
WEEK 6
October 10
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (all)
Friday October 12: Paper Due (Citation Review)
WEEK 7
October 17
Charles Rosenberg, The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System (all except chapters 10 and 11)
WEEK 8
October 24
Warwick Anderson, Colonial Pathologies (all)
WEEK 9
October 31
Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Book One and first two chapters of Book Two
WEEK 10
November 7
Harry Marks, The Progress of Experiment (all)
WEEK 11
November 14
Web Workshop [assignment TBA]
November 21: No Class
WEEK 12
November 28
Robert Aronowitz, Making Sense of Illness (all)
WEEK 13
December 5
Rosemary Stevens, et al., eds., History and Health Policy: Putting the Past Back In (Introduction, chapters 1, 3, 4, 7, 13)
December 14
Pedaogical Website Project Due