Msc/pgdip/pgcert Health History in University of Strathclyde, UK

Msc/pgdip/pgcert Health History in University of Strathclyde

Study with us

• explore the origins and impacts of our modern health experience and expectations
• examine the impact of warfare on medical technologies 
• suitable for those from humanities, social science and health science backgrounds

Why this course?

The MSc in Health History explores the last two-and-a-half centuries to seek the origins and impacts of our modern health experiences and expectations, together with the reasons they've changed so rapidly. It examines a variety of issues such as the:

• development of psychiatry since its birth in the 19th century
• rise of regulation for drugs and medicines
• impact of warfare on medical technologies
• challenges faced by those seeking to transform the health of British children
• changes and continuities in health and healthcare in Britain since 1800
• effects of work and workplaces on individual and environmental health
• concepts of and treatments for mental health in modern societies
• intersection of gender, sexuality and health since  1800

The degree is suitable for those from humanities, social science and health science backgrounds as well as those who have worked in the health professions.

The MSc Health History is organised around the expertise of staff in the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow. The CSHHH is a research collaboration between historians of medicine and of health and healthcare at Glasgow Caledonian and Strathclyde universities.

What you’ll study

You'll take the compulsory class Research Skills, Sources & Methods for Historians and choose four optional classes. In addition, MSc students write a dissertation of 15,000 words, researching a topic under the supervision of a member of the programme staff.

Modules can be built into a Masters degree. This can form the basis for future doctoral research funded by the:

• Wellcome Trust
• Arts & Humanities Research Council
• Economic & Social Research Council

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