204A. Research Methods in History of Health Sciences

Spring 2006

Tuesdays 10-12

LH 485 Seminar Room

Prof. Elizabeth Watkins

Syllabus (.doc)

* Henry Sigerist, Ch. 1 of A History of Medicine, “The Historical Approach to Medicine”

*Richard Shryock, “The Interplay of Social and Internal Factors in Modern Medicine: An Historical Analysis”

*Susan Reverby and David Rosner, “Beyond “the Great Doctors”” in Health Care in America

*Selections from Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume I (in Paul Rabinow (ed.), The Foucault Reader

*Paula S. Fass, “Cultural History/Social History: Some Reflections on a Continuing Dialogue”

*Daniel Wickberg, “Heterosexual White Male: Some Recent Inversions in American Cultural History "

*John Harley Warner, “The History of Science and the Sciences of Medicine”

*Steven Shapin, “Hyperprofessionalism and the Crisis of Readership in the History of Science”

*Jeremy Greene, “Releasing the Flood Waters: Diuril and the Reshaping of Hypertension” (2004 Shryock essay medal winner)

*Amir Afkhami, “Compromised Constitutions: The Iranian Experience with the 1918 Influenza Pandemic” (2002 Shryock essay medal winner)