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HIST274: Medicine, Life and Death, 1800 to the Present

Frontispiece to Hobbes's LeviathanHow did life come to be located in the body? How did the boundaries between life and death become matters of the most intense political regulation? This course seeks to answer these basic questions by introducing you to topics as diverse as the arguments over body snatching in Victorian Britain and the importance of political disagreements over the conduct of medical experiments to the development of drugs to treat AIDS.

For further information on HIST274 visit the Lancaster University Online Courses Handbook.

Essential Information

Convenor:
Professor Paolo Palladino
Taught: Michaelmas or Lent
Credits: 15
Length: 10 weeks
Assessment: Coursework and exam

 

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