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Module code:HMED3006(Add to my personalised list)
Title:Medicine and Modern Society
Credit value:.5
Division:Division of Biosciences
Module organiser:Professor Roger Cooter
Organiser's location:Medical Sciences Building
Organiser's email:r.cooter@ucl.ac.uk
Available for students in Year(s):2,3,
Module prerequisites:None 
Module outline:20 sessions. This course will explore the emergence of modern medicine from the 18th century to the present day in European society. It will assess how historians have interpreted the radical changes in the last 250 years of European medicine and the intellectual contexts in which they have done so. We will discover how the response of medical practitioners, institutions, legislators and the general public to health problems always reflected and at the same time contributed to changing social and cultural ideas and attitudes within contemporary European society. We will also see how historians are never the authors of their own thoughts. 
Module aims:To develop the student’s interest in and knowledge and understanding of the History of Modern Medicine. To develop critical reading, writing and thinking skills, and enhanced intellectual independence.  
Module objectives:To undertake independent reading to supplement and consolidate what is being taught / learned, and to broaden individual knowledge and understanding of the subject; Retrieve, select and organise information from a variety of sources; Plan and undertake a bibliographically-based piece of research; Apply key methods and concepts of historical analysis; Present coherent and logical argument based on an analysis of different factual sources; Structure and communicate ideas effectively, both orally and in writing; Manage time and work to deadlines; Work independently; Find information, use information technology, and be aware of the appropriate use of information technology; Be self-reliant; Assess the relevance and importance of the ideas of others 
Key skills provided by module:Reason critically; Apply historical methods and concepts; Identify and solve problems; Analyse and interpret; Demonstrate and exercise independence of thought 
Module timetable:https://cmis.adcom.ucl.ac.uk:4443/timetabling/moduleTimet.do?firstReq=Y&moduleId=HMED3006 
Module assessment:2 essays 50.00%.
Unseen three-hour written examination 50.00%.
 
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Taking this module as an option?: 
Link to virtual learning environment(registered students only)https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=13027 
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