MA in Medical History

The Medical History MA provided through the Wellcome Trust funded Centre for Medical History, at the University of Exeter, draws on academic expertise in a broad range of areas of research in the history of health and medicine. These include medieval and early modern medicine and the body, the histories of reproduction and sexuality, environments and health, work and health, and the history of stress. The programme draws on a range of staff with specialist knowledge in this area of study including Professor Mark Jackson, Professor Joseph Melling, Professor Jonathan Barry, Dr Kate Fisher, and Dr Sarah Toulalan.

 

Modules offered may include:

• Theory and Practice of History I and II (core modules);
• Medicine and society in the middle ages;
• Medicine in medieval and early modern England;
• Organising knowledge in early modern Europe;
• Gender, society and culture in early modern England;
• Witchcraft in History;
• The Darwinian Revolution;
• Health and the State;
• Health and medicine in modern Britain;
• Sexual discoveries: the reception of 'erotica' from 'other' cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;
• Fieldwork in medical history.