The MSc in Health History is a research-led postgraduate programme which seeks to introduce students to a range of issues, controversies, debates, and specialist topics in the history of health and medicine. It provides specialist modules, taught by experts in the field; a sources and methods module which engages with both practical and intellectual issues in the history of medicine and of health and healthcare; and the opportunity to carry out an extended piece of original historical research and writing in the form of the dissertation.
A first or second-class Honours degree, or overseas equivalent, in History or a related discipline
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Core
Research Skills, Sources & Methods for Historians.
Optional – five to be chosen
Advanced Oral History
Pharmaceuticals, Ethics and Health: 1800-1980
Health & Healthcare in the Long 19th Century
Governing Highs & Health: History & the Control of Drugs, c.1800-1945
Medicine and Warfare, 1800-2000
Medicine, Health & the Moving Image
Food and Health in the West during the 20th Century
Gender, Health and Modern Medicine Since 1800
Work Placement in History
Fleshy Histories: Meat Eating & Meat Avoidance, 1500 to the Present
Medicine & Madness: Psychiatry in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
History, Health & Heritage (from 2020-21 entry)
Media & Health
MSc – Dissertation
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