Advanced Papers for the MSc and MPhil
in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Each advanced paper listed below is linked to a synopsis
Papers will normally be taught in eight sessions over one or two terms (usually Hilary and/or Trinity except where shown below). The precise timing will be determined at the beginning of each year.
- Birth of the Clinic
(Professor Laurence Brockliss) - Disease, Medicine, and Colonialism in South Asia
(Professor Mark Harrison)
**NOT OFFERED IN 2011/12**
- Disease, Medicine, and Society in the Americas
(Dr Erica Charters) - Electrotherapy: A Case-study in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Science, Technology and Medicine
(Dr John Senior) - Environmental History: Industry, Expertise and Pollution, 17th-20th Century
(Dr Thomas Le Roux)
- Evolution and Society, 1700–2000.
Biology, Politics and Religion
(Professor Pietro Corsi) - Health and the People in Early Modern France and England
(Dr Erica Charters) - Historical Approaches to the Psychology of Religion
(Dr Sloan Mahone) - Instruments, Collections and Museums, 1700-1900
(Professor Jim Bennett and Dr Stephen Johnston)
- Medicine and Modern Warfare
(Dr Elise Smith) - Political Economy of Health and Medicine in Africa
(Dr Sloan Mahone) - Science and Technology Studies
(Professor Steve Woolgar)
- The Material Culture of the Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
(Professor Jim Bennett and Dr Stephen Johnston)
2012–2013
MPhil students will also do some of their Advanced Papers in 2012–2013, and should note that on present information all of the papers listed above will again be available in that year.