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History Centre for the History of Medicine

Undergraduate Modules in the History of Medicine

Current Modules

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Mind, Body and Society (HI176)

Dr Jamie Banks/CHM Team

2023-24

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Surveillance States: Biometrics from the Border to the Bathroom

Professor Roberta Bivins

2023-24

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Foreign Bodies, Contagious Communities: Migration in the Modern World

Professor Roberta Bivins

2023-24

Examples of Previous Modules

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From Cradle to Grave: Health, Medicine and Lifecycle in Modern Britain (HI278)

Dr Kathryn Woods

Family in Modern Britain: Health, Welfare and Social Change (HI288)

Dr Angela Davis

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Medicine and Society in Early Modern England (HI265)

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Madness and Society (HI383)

Professor Hilary Marland

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Medicine, Disease and Society in Britain

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Medicine, Identity and Technology in Modern History (HI269)

Professor Roberta Bivins

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Medicine in America (HI31L)

Professor Roberta Bivins

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Sexuality and the Body in the Modern World

Dr Howard Chiang

Facing the Other

Facing the Other: European encounters with the New World, 1500-1650 (HI31B)

Dr Claudia Stein