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Undergraduate Teaching

Newcastle’s School of Historical Studies currently provides the following undergraduate courses relevant to the subject of Medical History:

 

  • Madness, Nerves and Narratives in Georgian Britain, ca 1714-1830 (HIS3103)
  • Death, Dying and the Dead in Early Modern England (HIS2114)
  • Birth Control in the Ninteenth and Twentieth Centuries (HIS3021)
  • Approaches to the History of Western Medicine AD500- (HIS2078)
  • The Nuremburg Medical Trial (HIS3110)

At Durham University, undergraduate students could take the following modules relevant to the History of Medicine:

  • History and Theory of Medicine (Open module, Department of Philosophy)
  • Biomedical Ethics (Open module, Department of Philosophy)
  • History of the Body (Open module, School of Medicine and Health)
  • Healthcare and Medicine in Early Modern Europe (Department of History)
  • The Black Death (Department of History)
  • Bones and Human Societies (Department of Archaeology)
  • Medieval Death and Burial Rites (Department of Archaeology)
  • Biomolecular Archaeology and dating the past (Department of Archaeology)
  • Teaching for medical students

At both Durham and Newcastle, medical students can take their Special Studies Component (SSC) in topics related to history of medicine.