Hist 4610
Spring 2015
TR 2:40-4:05 p.m.
Instructor: Dr. Yüan-ling Chao
Office: Peck Hall 265 (898-2629), e-mail:
Office Hours: MW 10:00-11:30 am; TR 11:30 am-2:30 pm. & by appointment
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Course Description
This course is a social and cultural history of medicine. In this course we will examine the history of medical developments in both the East and the West, comparing the medical traditions in China and Europe as they evolved and changed. The discussion is divided into three parts: Part I: Theory and Practice of Medicine in the East and West, Part II: Shifting of the “Gaze” and the Rise of Scientific Medicine, and Part III: Modern Medicine and State Power.
In Part I we examine foundations of the Western medical tradition by beginning with the Greek scientific and intellectual framework and the dominance ofGalenism in the religious and cultural landscape of Europe.We will then examine the Chinese institutional and intellectual traditions that shaped its medicine, and compare the similarities and differences between the Greek and Chinese medicines. In Part II we move to Europe and trace the emergence of scientific medicine and changing medical landscape where the hospital and laboratories become central to the transformed medical profession. However this process of adopting scientific medicine was often met with skepticism. We study the physician Ignaz Semmelweiss as a case study. In Part III we discuss the close association between scientific medicine and emerging state power. As China pursues modernization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a modern system of health care became a symbol of modernity. Yet traditional Chinese medicine was not discarded, and we end with a study on the interaction between the modern and traditional systems of medicine in China.
The class will consist of lectures and as well as discussions. All students are responsible for readings listed for each week and sometimes leading discussions. Students can choose the topic for their term paper after consultation with the instructor.
Textbook:
Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit To Mankind (NY: W.W. Norton and Co., 1997)
Supplemental Books:
W.F. Bynum, Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Ted Kaptchuk, The Web That Has No Weaver (Chicago: Congdon & Weed, 1983)
Sherwin B. Nuland, The Doctor’s Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of IgnacSemmelweis (NY: W.W. Norton & Co. 2003)
Nathan Sivin and Geoffrey Lloyd, The Way and the Word (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)
Course Requirements
1.5%Attendance and Participation: Class attendance is required and roll will be taken each class. (grade for attendance will be calculated as follows:0-1 absence: A; 2-3 absences: B; 4-5 absences C; 6-7 absences: D; 8 & over: F. Students who arrive more than 10 minutes late or leave early will be counted as absent)
2, 10% Participation
3.30%Three essays (5 pages each)
4.15%Midterm examination
5. 15%Take Home Final
6. 25%Term Paper (8-10 pages)
+/- will be used for the course
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A 90 and above
B+ 88-89
B 84-87
B- 80-83
C+ 78-79
C 74-77
C- 70-73
D+ 68-69
D 64-67
D- 60-63
F 59 and below
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Make-up Policy
There will be NO make-ups and missed tests and examinations will count as Fs. Exceptions will only be made in cases of emergency and illness that can be validated with a note from a doctor.
Statement on Academic Misconduct
Middle Tennessee State University takes a strong stance against academic misconduct. Academic Misconduct includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism, cheating, and fabrication.
Academic Misconduct: Plagiarism, cheating, fabrication, or facilitating any such act. For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) Plagiarism: The adoption or reproduction of ideas, words, statements, images, or works of another person as one’s own without proper attribution. This includes self-plagiarism, which occurs when an author submits material or research from a previous academic exercise to satisfy the requirements of another exercise and uses it without proper citation of its reuse.
(2) Cheating: Using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise. This includes unapproved collaboration, which occurs when a student works with others on an academic exercise without the express permission of the professor. The term academic exercise includes all forms of work submitted for credit or hours.
(3) Fabrication: Unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.
To be clear: going online and taking information without proper citations, copying parts of other student’s work, creating information for the purposes of making your paper seem more official, or anything involving taking someone else’s thoughts or ideas without proper attribution is academic misconduct. If you work together on an assignment when it is not allowed, it is academic misconduct. If you have a question about an assignment, please come see me to clarify. Any cases of academic misconduct will be reported to the Office of Academic Affairs for violating the academic honesty requirements in the student handbook. They will also result in failure for the course. Remember – ignorance is NOT a defense.
Students with Disabilities
Reasonable Accommodation for Students with Disabilities: If you have a disability that may require assistance or accommodation, or you have questions related to any accommodations for testing, note takers, readers, etc., please speak with me as soon as possible. Students may also contact the Office of Disabled Students Services (898-2783) with questions about such services.
Classroom Behavior
Turn off all cell phones. Points will be deducted from assignments and the final grade if you use your cell phone in class. Text messaging is forbidden, and after two warnings, points will be deducted from tests and examinations. You may use a laptop computer to take notes only with the approval of the instructor
Lecture and Reading Schedule:
Readings with a “*” are available on D2L. Students should check D2L regularly for updates and announcements. All handouts will also be posted on D2L.
Web address for D2L:
Part ITheory and Practice of Medicine in the East and West
Jan.20Introduction: Ways of seeing the body and experiencing illnesses
22Greek Medicine
Readings: Porter Ch. 3: 44-68 (Chs. 1 & 2 recommended); Lloyd and Sivin,Ch. 1
27The Greek Scientific and Medical Traditions
Readings: Lloyd and Sivin, Ch. 3; *LogenClendening compiled, Source Book of Medical History (New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1960), Ch.3 “Hippocrates”
29Greek Society and Medicine
Readings: Lloyd and Sivin, Ch. 4
Feb.3Galen
Readings: Porter Ch. 3: 69-82; *LogenClendening compiled, Source Book of Medical History, Ch. 7 “Galen”; OwseiTemkin, “The Rise of Galenism as a Medical Philosophy,” in Galenism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973), Ch. 2
5Galenism
Readings: Porter, Chs.4, 5
Writing Assignment I
10Philosophical and Institutional Traditions in China
Readings: Lloyd and Sivin, Chs.2, 5
12Medical Theories and Traditions
Readings: KaptchukChs. 1,2; * IlzaVeith, The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, Book 1
17Bodily Landscape in Chinese Classical Medicine
Readings: KaptchukChs. 3-5
19Diagnosis and Healing in the Yellow Emperor’s Body
Readings: KaptchukChs. 6-10;; *Charlotte Furth, “The Yellow Emperor’s Body” in A Flourishing Yin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), Ch.1
24Greek and Chinese Medical Traditions Compared
Readings: *Shigehisa Kuriyama, “Blood and Life,” in The Expressiveness of the Body, Ch. 5; Lloyd and Sivin, Ch. 6
Writing Assignment II
26Visit to the Special Collections in Walker Library (4th Floor)
Part II Shifting of the “Gaze” and the Rise of Scientific Medicine
Mar.3Medieval and Renaissance Medicine: Vesalius and Anatomy
Readings:Porter Ch. 8;* Logan Clendening, Source Book of Medical History “Andreas Vesalius” *Nancy Siraisi, “Vesalius and the Reading of Galen's Teleology” in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1. (Spring, 1997), pp. 137 (also available in JSTOR)
5Revolutionary Impulses in Medicine: Seventeenth-Century New Science
Readings: Porter Ch. 9; Bynum Chs. 1-2
10Spring Break
12Spring Break
17Enlightenment and the Search for Medical Science
Readings: Porter Ch. 10; *Michel Foucault, Ch.1 “Spaces and Classes” in The Birth of the Clinic; Bynum Chs. 3-4
19Midterm
24Scientific Medicine
Readings: Porter Chs. 11,12; *LogenClendening compiled, Source Book of Medical History, “Robert Koch”
26Science and Medicine
Readings: Bynum Chs. 5-6 ;Nuland Chs.1-3
31“New Medicine”
Readings: Porter Chs. 13,14; Bynum Chs.7-8; NulandChs. 4-8
Apr.2Childbirth and Medicine
Readings: NulandChs. 1-3
7Semmelweiss
Readings: Nuland Ch. 4-8
Writing Assignment III
Part III Modern Medicine and State Power
9Western Medicine, State Power, and Disease Control
Readings: Porter Ch. 20; *Carol Benedict, "Plague and the Origins of Chinese State Medicine in the new Policies Reform Era, 1901-1911" in Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), Ch. 6
14Medicine and Public Health in Modern China
Reading: *Yu Xinzhang, “The Treatment of Night Soil and Waste in Modern China” in Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia :Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century ed. by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010): 51-72.
16Chinese Medicine and Modernity
Reading: * Volker Scheid, “The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine and its Discontents,” Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626-2006 (Seattle: Eastland Press, 2007), Ch. 12
21Research Paper Presentation
23Research Paper Presentation
28Research Paper Presentation and Concluding Review
Term Paper due April 30
Take Home Final Due May 5 (Tuesday)
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