Readings and Media Sources

 

NOTE FOR ALL STUDENTS: MANY ITEMS CAN BE FOUND IN ELECTRONIC FORM AT THE LINK BELOW.

• YOU WILL NEED TO SIGN IN, USING YOUR USUAL WARWICK ACOCUNT DETAILS.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/main/electronicresources/extracts/hi/hi269

NOTE THAT MANY READINGS WILL BE DRAWN FROM E-JOURNALS AND ELECTRONIC DATABASES. IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THESE RESOURCES, COME SEE ME.

• Most articles will be available either on JSTOR or Project MUSE
• Remember that you can search both of these simultaneously via ResearchPro on the Library website

 

Books

BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM THE SHORT LOAN COLLECTION, AND WHERE POSSIBLE, AS E-BOOKS.

THE BOOKS BELOW WILL BE USED EITHER IN THEIR ENTIRETY OR IN PART. WE WILL READ LARGER SECTIONS OF THOSE MARKED WITH AN *.

• *Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia, (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2006
• Alison Bashford, ed., Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006).
• *Jane Caplan and John Torpey (eds), Documenting Individual Identity The Development of State Practices since the French Revolution (Princeton: PUP, 2001).
• *Simon Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprints and Criminal Identification (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2001).
• Jose van Dijck, Imagenation: Popular Images of Genetics, (Macmillan Press, 1998)
• *Kaja Finkler, Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and kinship on the medical frontier. (Philadelphia: UPenn, 2000).
• *Linda Hogle Recovering the Nation’s Body: Cultural Memory Medicine and the Politics of Redemption (New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1999).
• Judith Walzer Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health (Boston MA: Beacon Press, 1996).
• Lara Marks, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
• *Walter McDougall, …The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books, 1985)
• Dorothy Nelkin, M. Susan Lindee, The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon (New York: W.H.Freeman and Co, 1995).
• Michelle Stanworth, Reproductive technologies: gender, motherhood and medicine, (Oxford: Polity press, 1987).
• *Chandak Sengoopta, Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2003).
• *Keith Wailoo and Simon Pemberton, The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis and Sickle Cell Disease (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

 

FILMS/OTHER MEDIA

'The Return of Martin Guerre';

‘Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life’;

‘John Q’;

‘Junior’;

‘Born with Two Mothers’

‘The Family Man’,

‘Sicko’

 

Useful Websites:

Note that I add to this list regularly.

http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Medical/web.html This site offers well-chosen links to research resources, centres of research and image collections relevant to the history of medicine.

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/ Like it says on the tin, this website addresses eugenics, spcifically the US eugenics movement as documented in the archives of the Cold Spring Harbour DNA learning Center.

 http://www.wellcomecollection.org/home-explore.aspx The Wellcome Trust hosts a number of fantastic online exhibitions addressing module themes -- from the news release announcing the birth of the first test tube baby to interviews on the ethics of genetic screening.

http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/ Your first port of call for historical and contemporary images of medicine and medical themes. See also the US National Library of Medicine's website, immediately below.

http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/all The Images from the History of Medicine website is a bit slow, but spectacular, and particularly rich on international health initiatives from the WHO.