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Course Schedule:

 

Week

Topic

Unit 1

Building a theoretical and methodological foundation in medicine and world history

Aug 27

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction: Perils and Pitfalls of world history and history of medicine and health

 

Reading:

Watts, ch. 1

Bayly, C.A., Sven Beckert, Matthew Connelly, Isabel Hofmeyr, Wendy Kozol, and Patricia Seed, "AHR Conversation: On Transnational History," American Historical Review 111, no. 5 (December 2006): 1441-1464. (Ebscohost)

 

Sept 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, and Pre-Contact New World

 

Reading:

Watts, ch. 2

Anderson, ch. 2 Intro and ch. 7 intro, plus at least two of the following:

Holy Bible (A2); Edwin Smith and Ebers Papyri (A2); Spiegel and Springer (A2); Irving (A7); Roys (A7); Harvey (A7)

 

Due: Assignment 1

 

Sept 10

 

 

LIBRARY VISIT

Meet with Ericka Raber and Ed Holtum, Main Library rm. 4037

 

Unit 2

Medicine before microbes

Sept 17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient Greece and the Muslim World

 

Reading:

Watts, ch. 3, 4, 8

Anderson, ch. 4 intro, ch. 6 intro, review ch. 7 intro, plus at least two of the following:

Thucydides (A4); Hippocrates (A4); Appelboom (A4); Galen, On the Natural Faculties, book 1.5-1.7, book 3.3-3.4, and On Diagnosis of Dreams; Dame Trotula (A6); Brody (A6); de Chauliac (A6); Wheelis (A6); Clynn (A6); Ibn Sina (A7); Dols (A7); partial trans of Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 28

 

Due:

Assignment 2

 

Sept 24

 

 

 

 

 

 

India and China

 

Reading:

Watts, ch. 5, 6

Anderson, ch. 3 intro plus at least two of the following:

Sushruta; Manyam; Lai and Lai; Veith, Zhange and Cheng (all A3)

 

Oct 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Europe’s Scientific Revolution and Expansion

 

Reading:

Watts, ch. 7

Anderson, ch 7-9 intros, plus at least three of the following:

Leon-Portilla (A7); Faria (A8); da Vinci and Vesalius (A8); Harvey (A8); Jenner (A8); Walton, Fienman, and Walton (A8); Ballard (A9); Cuppage (A9)

 

Oct 8

 

NO CLASS: Independent research

 

Unit 3

Modern Medical Epistimologies

Oct 15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medical Revolution and Colonial Medicine

 

Reading:

Watts, ch. 9

Anderson, ch. 10 intro and ch. 11 intro, plus at least two of the following:

Freemon (A10); Dunlop (A10); Ramasubban (A10); Anderson (A11); McWilliam (A11); Sted and Fried (A11)

AND one of the following:

Lorcin, PME. "Imperialism, Colonial Identity, and Race in Algeria, 1830-1870: The Role of the French Medical Corps," Isis vol. 90, no. 4 (Dec 1999): 653-679 (JSTOR)

OR Gallois, William. "Local Responses to French Medical Imperialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Algeria," Social History of Medicine vol 20, no. 2 (August 2007): 315-331 (Oxford Journals)

OR Harriet Deacon, “Midwives and Medical Men in the Cape Colony before 1860,” Journal of African History 39 (1998): 271-292. (JSTOR)

OR Schayegh, Cyrus. “ ‘A Sound Mind Lives in a Healthy Body:’ Texts and Contexts in the Iranian Modernists’ Scientific Discourse of Health, 1910s-40s,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 37 (2005): 167-188. (Cambridge Journals)

 

Due:

Assignment 3

 

Oct 22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topic in Focus: Transnational Organizations

 

Reading:

Weindling, Paul. “Philanthropy and World Health: The Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations Health Organization,” Minerva 35, no. 3 (September 1997): 269-281. (SpringerLink)

Heiser, Victor G. “Health Work of the League of Nations,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 65, no. 5, Supplement (1926): 1-9. (JSTOR)

AND one of the following:

Löwy, Ilana. “Epidemiology, Immunology, and Yellow Fever: The Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil, 1923-1939,” Journal of the History of Biology 30, no. 3 (Autumn 1997): 397-417. (JSTOR)

OR Abel, Christopher. “External Philanthropy and Domestic Change in Columbian Health Care: The Role of the Rockefeller Foundation, ca. 1920-1950,” The Hispanic American Historical Review 75, no. 3 (August 1995): 339-376. (JSTOR)

OR Solomon, Susan Gross, “Knowing the ‘Local:’ The Rockefeller Foundation Officers’ Site Visits to Russia in the 1920s,” Slavic Review 62, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 710-732. (JSTOR)

 

Oct 29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medicine and the Postwar World

 

Reading:

Watts, ch10

Anderson ch. 12-14 intros, plus at least three of the following:

Reverby (A12); Trials of War Criminals (A12); Knopf (A13); Fincher (A13); Black (A13); Natsios (A13); Chimwaza and Watkins (A13); Stern (A14); Steinhauser et al. (A14); Lappé (A14)

 

Also, in class: “Living Longer, 1954,” Main Media Services 20811 DVD

 

Due:

Assignment 4

 

Nov 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topic in Focus: Postcolonial Medical Diplomacy

 

Reading:

Salud! Study guide;

Julie M. Feinsilver, “Cuban Diplomacy: When the Left Has Got it Right,” Council on Hemisphere Affairs (Oct 30, 2006);

Tommy G. Thompson, “The Cure for Tyranny,” Boston Globe (Oct 24, 2005);

Randy Cheek, “Public Health as a Global Security Issue,” Foreign Service Journal  vol 81, no. 12 (Dec 2004).

 

Also, in Class: Salud!, Main Media Services 24278 DVD (93 min)

 

Unit 4

Writing Medicine and Health in World Historical Perspective

Nov 12

 

 

 

 

NO CLASS: Independent research

 

Due:

Group 1 drafts (submit via ICON by 5 p.m.)

 

Nov 19

 

 

 

Workshop: Group 1

 

Due:

Group 2 drafts (submit via ICON by 2:15 p.m.)

 

Nov 26

 

 

NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

 

Dec 3

 

Workshop: Group 2

 

Dec 10

 

 

 

Summation

 

Due:

Final Papers, in class

 

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