History of Science & Medicine

PhD

In New Haven (USA)

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  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    New haven (USA)

Faculty Sakena Abedin (History of Science & Medicine), Paola Bertucci (History), Deborah Coen (History), Ivano Dal Prete (History), Rachel Elder (History of Science & Medicine), Joanna Radin (History of Medicine), Chitra Ramalingam (History of Science & Medicine), William Rankin (History), Carolyn Roberts (African American Studies; History; History of Medicine), Naomi Rogers (History; History of Medicine; Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies), John Harley Warner (History of Medicine; History)

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New Haven (USA)
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06520

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About this course

All subjects and periods in the history of science and history of medicine, especially the modern era. Special fields represented include American and European science and medicine; disease, therapeutics, psychiatry, drug abuse, and public health; science and national security; science and law, science and religion, life sciences, human genetics, eugenics, biotechnology, gender, race, and science/medicine; bioethics and medical research; environmental sciences; human and social sciences; physical and earth sciences.

Preference is normally given to applicants with a strong undergraduate background in history and/or a science relevant to their graduate interests. However, the HSHM faculty will take into consideration outstanding performance in any field pertinent to the program. Students will ordinarily take twelve courses during the first two years. All students will normally take the three core Problems seminars: Problems in the History of Medicine and Public Health (HSHM 701), Problems in the History of Science (HSHM 702), and Problems in Science Studies (HSHM 710) . These courses are committed to...

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  • Medical training
  • Medical
  • Technology
  • Disability

Course programme

Courses

HSHM 701a / AMST 878a / HIST 930a, Problems in the History of Medicine and Public HealthJohn Warner

An examination of the variety of approaches to the social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine, focusing on the United States. Reading and discussion of the recent scholarly literature on medical cultures, public health, and illness experiences from the early national period through the present. Topics include the role of gender, class, ethnicity, race, religion, and region in the experience of health care and sickness and in the construction of medical knowledge; the interplay between vernacular and professional understandings of the body; the role of the marketplace in shaping professional identities and patient expectations; health activism and social justice; citizenship, nationalism, and imperialism; and the visual cultures of medicine.
W 1:30pm-3:20pm

HSHM 710b / HIST 921b, Problems in Science StudiesLisa Messeri

Exploration of the methods and debates in the social studies of science, technology, and medicine. This course covers the history of the field and its current intellectual, social, and political positioning. It provides critical tools—including feminist, postcolonial, and new materialist perspectives—to address the relationships among science, technology, medicine, and society.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

HSHM 716a / HIST 936a, Early Modern Science and MedicinePaola Bertucci

The course focuses on recent works in the history of science and medicine in the early modern world. We discuss how interdisciplinary approaches—including economic and urban history, sociology and anthropology of science, gender studies, art and colonial history—have challenged the classic historiographical category of “the Scientific Revolution.” We also discuss the avenues for research that new approaches to early modern science and medicine have opened up, placing special emphasis on the circulation of knowledge, practices of collecting, and visual and material culture.
Th 1:30pm-3:20pm

HSHM 753a / AMST 838a / HIST 749a, Research in Modern U.S. History and Environmental HistoryPaul Sabin

Students conduct advanced research in primary sources and write original essays over the course of the term. Topics are particularly encouraged in twentieth-century environmental history (broadly defined, no specified geography) as well as in U.S. history, with a focus on politics, law, and economic development. Readings and library activities inform students’ research projects. Interested graduate students should contact the instructor with proposed research topics.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

HSHM 761b / AFAM 752b / HIST 937b, Medicine and EmpireCarolyn Roberts

A reading course that explores medicine in the context of early modern empires with a focus on Africa, India, and the Americas. Topics include race, gender, and the body; medicine and the environment; itineraries of scientific knowledge; enslaved, indigenous, and creole medical and botanical knowledge and practice; colonial contests over medical authority and power; indigenous and enslaved epistemologies of the natural world; medicine and religion.
M 1:30pm-3:20pm

HSHM 764a, Decolonizing the AnthropoceneZoe Todd

This course explores diverse narratives of the Anthropocene epoch, interrogating the scientific work of defining and situating this era of anthropogenic change of the Earth system. Critical discourses from anthropology, indigenous studies, science and technology studies, Afrofuturism, geography, and philosophy are examined to complicate understandings of the Anthropocene.
T 9:25am-11:15am

HSHM 770b / HIST 940b / WGSS 782b, Disability Histories: Research SeminarNaomi Rogers

This course introduces students to the major issues in current disability history as well as theoretical debates in disability studies. We discuss cultural, social, and political meanings of citizenship; efforts to define and classify disabled bodies; contested notions of bodily difference; and the ways disability has and continues to be used as a metaphor for socially defined inferiority like gender, race, or sexuality. By the fourth week students have identified the topic for their research papers and discussed them in class. The next month is devoted to research and writing. We start meeting again after spring break to read and discuss a draft of each paper.
W 1:30pm-3:20pm

HSHM 920a or b, Independent ReadingJohn Warner

By arrangement with faculty.
HTBA

History of Science & Medicine

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