The History of Medicine (Online)
offered by Oxford University

Public University
1 Campus
Estd. 1096

The History of Medicine (Online)
at
Oxford University
Overview

Focusing on the key turning points in the history of western medicine e.g. the advent of hospitals, the role of public health, the rise of biomedical research

Duration	5 weeks
Total fee	₹14,000
Mode of learning	Online
Course Level	UG Certificate

The History of Medicine (Online)
at
Oxford University
Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university

The History of Medicine (Online)
at
Oxford University
Course details

Skills you will learn

English

What are the course deliverables?

Critical use of a range of medically related primary sources, including images
Critical understanding of the role of historical practice in appreciating the history of medicine as a discipline

More about this course

This course offers insights into medicine?s past, asks what has shaped contemporary medicine and how do people study it
By exploring five kinds of medicine ? Bedside, Library, Hospital, Community and Laboratory ? this course charts the shape and content of the history of western medicine from the Greeks to the present day
It looks at the role of doctors, patients, diseases and society?s reaction to them over time and asks how medicine, disease and health have been motors for change
The course encourages its participants to understand how contemporary medicine differs from but is indelibly marked by its past
This course introduces and studies the historical dimensions of western medicine, healing and health from the Greeks to the present day

The History of Medicine (Online)
at
Oxford University
Curriculum

Getting to Grips with the History of Medicine and Introducing the Kinds of Medicine

Historiography

The Hippocratic oath

Introduction to the kinds of medicine

Bedside medicine

Library medicine

Hospital medicine

Community medicine

Laboratory medicine

Medicine at the Bedside and in the Library

Bedside medicine and the four humours

Medicine in the library

The discovery of anatomy

Back at the bedside

The English Hippocrates?

Enlightened medicine?

Medicine in the Hospital

Vive la France: the importance of Paris and Revolution

Physical diagnosis: the new intimacy

To the morgue

Learning to count: passing it all on

The physical and the mental

Hospital medicine: Being doctors and patients

Medicine in the Community and the Laboratory

The people?s health

Cholera and poverty: Motors of public health

Establishing the public health bureaucracy

Omnis cellula e cellula: Every cell from a cell

Germs: The new gospel

Germs, medicine and surgery

Physiology: The new rigour

Medicine in the Modern World

What happened next? The twentieth century

Diabetes: Medical triumph or making an acute disease chronic?

Transplantation: Surgery and immunology

Smoking and health: The power of epidemiology?

The five kinds of medicine in the modern world

Further resources to explore

The History of Medicine (Online)
at
Oxford University
Faculty details

Dr Helen Bynum

Helen Bynum is a freelance historian of science and medicine. She was a Wellcome Award Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. She studied at UCL, Imperial College London and Welcome Institute of the History of Medicine.

The History of Medicine (Online)
at
Oxford University
Entry Requirements

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Prerequisite: Familiar with using a computer for purposes such as sending email and searching the Internet

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