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On successful completion of this module students should a) develop study, writing and communication skills b) develop an awareness of key concepts and methodologies that historians have used to approach medical history c) develop critical skills through the assessment of a range of historical and inter-disciplinary approaches within the social history of medicine d) develop the ability to handle historical sources, and to evaluate a range of primary sources.
Indicative Module Content:Topics and themes explored in the module include:
The Rise of the Hospital and the Lunatic Asylums; The Making of the Medical Profession; Midwives, Men-midwives and Childbirth; Women in Medicine and Nursing; Disease, Sanitation and Public Health; Prostitution and Venereal Disease; War and Medicine; Contraception and Family Planning; From Germ Theory to Social Medicine; The Rise of State Medicine.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 20 |
Project Supervision | 2 |
Specified Learning Activities | 95 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 103 |
Total | 220 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Continuous Assessment: See handbook | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Project: 4,000 word research paper | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
Feedback on the continuous assessments will be given in written and oral form on the returned hard-copy and by appointment in one-to-one meetings with the module co-ordinator. Oral feedback on the continuous assessments will be given by peers during activities. Written and oral feedback will be provided in one-to-one meetings with module co-ordinator on an ongoing basis on preparatory plans and primary and secondary source bibliographies for end-of-semester Research Project Assignments. Feedback on the end-of-semester Research Project Assignment will be given by appointment in one-to-one meetings.