Unit name | Race and Health in America |
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Unit code | HIST30099 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Stephen Mawdsley |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit explores the complex intersection of race and health in America. Students will grapple with the ideology of race as well as the social construction of disease, illness, and the body. By using case studies, students will gain a deeper understanding of the social determinants of disease, the effects of racism, and how racial groups have negotiated existing institutions (hospitals, public health, government, and medicine). By engaging with a range of primary and secondary sources, students will improve their research skills, public speaking skills, and knowledge of American health history through the lens of race.
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
3 hours of seminar per week
1 x 3,500-word summative essay (50%) [ILOs 1-5]
1 x 2 hour exam (50%) [ILOs 1-5]
Todd L. Savitt, Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early- Twentieth-Century America (2007)
Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (2002)
Margaret Humphreys, Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War (2008)
Vanessa Northington Gamble, Making A Place for Ourselves (1995)
Susan Reverby, Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (2012)
David McBride, Integrating the City of Medicine: Blacks in Philadelphia Health Care, 1910-1965 (1989)