Teaching

Undergraduate

The Centre offers teaching in the history of medicine, science and technology at all levels of our undergraduate degree programmes, as well as on a number of external modules.

History Department Modules

First Year

Mind, Body, and Society (HI176)

Second Year

Being Human: Human Nature from the Renaissance to Freud (HI281)

Race and Science: Histories and Legacies (HI2H5)

Measuring Society: Social Sciences and Social Problems in Twentieth-Century Britain (HI2H7)

Surveillance States: Biometrics from the Border to the Bathroom (HI2H9)

Imperial Natures: Environments and Empires from c.1450 to Present (HI2K2)

In Poor Health: The Sick Poor and Health Provision, 1800–1948 (HI2L5)

Screening Subjects: Cinema, Science and Medicine in the Twentieth Century (HI200)

Final Year

Science, Technology, and Global Politics, 1900 to Present (HI3S6)

Medicine, Empire, and the Body, c.1750-1914 (HI34I)

Socialist Bodies: Dreams and Realities of the Physical in Soviet Russia (HI3J7)

Empire and Energy in the Middle East (HI3J1)

Value in the Age of Reason (HI3T5)

The Early Modern Body (HI3T3)

Foreign Bodies, Contagious Communities: Migration in the Modern World (HI3H7)

Rebuilding the Body: The Pursuit of Perfection, 1861-2021 (HI3T8)

Postgraduate

Postgraduate students in Centre can expect to be part of a thriving and supportive community of MA, MPhil and PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and academic staff.

MA

We teach across the MA History course and offer modules that qualify for the specialist Medicine, Science and Technology pathway.

To find out more, please see the MA History webpage.

PhD and MPhil

The Centre offers PhD and MPhil supervision for a wide variety of topics in the history of medicine, science and technology. Please get in contact with individual staff members to discuss proposals.

To find out more, please see the PhD and MPhil History webpage.