PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM: None
PURPOSE: This seminar course is intended for medical students. It will focus on various topics in the history of medicine during the 19th and 20th
centuries in the United States and the developing world. The course will
introduce the student to the changing face of medical ideas and concerns
and will expose the student to some of the major areas of research in the
discipline of history of medicine. Rather than taking medicine and medical
knowledge as given scientific ?truth,? most reading selections will
critically examine that notion by looking at the social history, politics
and construction of disease as well as that of medical agendas. As such,
the course will also offer literary, sociological, political and
anthropological approaches to the study of medicine and public health.
Through this course, students will not only learn about the major themes
about which historians of medicine have written but will also learn how to
read historical scholarship critically.
COMPETENCIES:
• Chronological knowledge of events in the development of medicine and the medical profession;
• Biographical knowledge of individual participants in the development of medicine and the medical profession;
• Awareness of the complex scientific, social, cultural, political, and economic factors influencing changes in medicine and the medical profession;
• Historical research methods: Identification, critical evaluation, and interpretations of secondary and primary source materials;
• Verbal and written ability to discuss issues in the history of medicine;
• Verbal and written ability to present and interpret historical research.
INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES: : Instructor will assign both primary and secondary readings that will form the basis for both classroom and electronic group discussions. These readings and discussions will be supplemented, as needed, with informal lectures. Instruction on identifying, analyzing, and researching historical materials will be provided through discussions and library work shops.
ASSESSMENT: Students will prepare a one-page response paper for one class session. This response paper will consist of questions, impressions and comments that pertain to the main points of the readings. Every student will also be responsible for leading one discussion during the course. S/he should
use comments/thought questions from the response paper in order to
initiate the discussion.
Class participation and attendance
A research final paper of between seven to ten pages on any topic of
historical medicine. Prior to the deadline of this paper, the student will
submit a paper outline, abstract and bibliography to the professor for
review.
Attendance: Only one absence are allowed for this class due to the short
duration of the course.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION:
Program Number: ELEC 939
Location: UICMC
Program Director: S. Sufian, Jennifer Justice jjusti1@uic.edu (coordinator)
Telephone: 312-996-6738
Duration: 2 Weeks
Night Call: No
Weekends: No
Students Accepted: 2-12
Housestaff Used as Faculty: No
Lectures/Conferences/Faculty Contact: 7.5
Laboratory/Independent Study: 20
Outpatient: 12.5
Inpatient: 0
Total Hours /Week: 40
KEYWORDS: History of Medicine; changing roles of physicians; development od medical profession; social, cultural, political and economic factors.
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