Northern Centre for the History of Medicine

	Undergraduate Teaching Newcastle’s School of Historical Studies currently provides the following undergraduate courses relevant to the subject of Medical History: Body, Mind and Spirit from Classical Thought to the Ideas of the Present - CAC2047/3047 Hunger, Disease and Death: Famines in History - HIS2083 Death Dying and the Dead - HIS2114 The Family Sex and Society - HIS2123 Devices and Desires: Birth control, sexuality and reproduction - HIS3021 Madness, Nerves and Narrative in Georgian Britain - HIS3103 Venereal Disease in Britain (1500-1800) - HIS3119 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.