1. Kill or Cure: the History of Medicine and Health
Wednesdays 11-12
Room MS.05 (Maths and Stats Bldg)
Convenor: Elise Smith

2. The history of medicine?

3. The history of medicine and global history
Why a medical perspective on the global past?
Health and the body are enduring and immediate concerns across historical periods and peoples;
A focus on medicine and health allows approaches to both natural and built environments;
Focusing on ideas about and experiences of health and illness offers a unique perspective on social and cultural trends and beliefs: shows how they filtered into and influenced PRACTICE and daily life;
Exploring the institutions, practitioners and consumers of medicines exposes the interplay between cultural, political, economic and social spheres.

4. What kind of history is this?
Social
Political
Economic
Cultural

5. Approaches to the history of medicine
Through case studies
Through individual accounts
Through political debates and discourse
Through the professional literature
Through technologies, images and artefacts
Through the media

6. Global Medical Systems

7. ‘Biomedicine’

8. Diseases

9. Empire, Health & Medicine
Reproduction and Gender

10. Institutions and Professions

11. Medicine and the Body Politic
Dr. Arthur's prescriptions [Uncle Sam is sick, his arm in a sling, his leg bandaged].Illustrated In: New York, Dec. 16, 1882 Harper's Weekly

12. Medicine and Technology