HSTM60692 15 Semester 2 Postgraduate Taught Level 7 Bonnie Evans Unit coordinator Centre for History of Science, Technology & Medici 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 <p>This unit explores the history of mental illness from the late eighteenth century to the present.&nbsp; It examines how insanity has been understood, treated, and represented within larger social, cultural, and intellectual frameworks; it will also relate changing ideas about and approaches to mental illness, health, and functioning to larger questions in the history of the medical and biological sciences.&nbsp; Our focus will be on developments in Britain, but with frequent reference to developments in Continental Europe and in North America. Topics include: the rise of the asylum in the 19th century; scientific and popular understandings of mental illness since 1800; race and gender in relation to mental illness; biological and surgical therapies; the relationship of psychiatry to the rest of medicine; discourses around mental health since the Second World War and the decline of the asylum.</p> <p>This unit explores the history of mental illness from the late eighteenth century to the present.&nbsp; It examines how insanity has been understood, treated, and represented within larger social, cultural, and intellectual frameworks; it will also relate changing ideas about and approaches to mental illness, health, and functioning to larger questions in the history of the medical and biological sciences.&nbsp; Our focus will be on developments in Britain, but with frequent reference to developments in Continental Europe and in North America. Topics include: the rise of the asylum in the 19th century; scientific and popular understandings of mental illness since 1800; race and gender in relation to mental illness; biological and surgical therapies; the relationship of psychiatry to the rest of medicine; discourses around mental health since the Second World War and the decline of the asylum.</p> <ul> <li>Provide students with an overview of the major changes in the understanding, management and meaning of mental illness from 1800 to the present;</li> <li>Help students to develop an understanding of how these changes have been approached&nbsp;and explained by historians and social scientists;</li> <li>Locate the&nbsp;changes in their broader social, cultural, intellectual, and political contexts;</li> <li>Consider how this history has shaped contemporary debates around&nbsp;mental health, psychiatry, and neuroscience;</li> <li>Develop facility in analysing and discussing relevant secondary literature and locating primary sources on the history of mental illness.</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div> <div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoBodyText"><strong>Knowledge and understanding</strong></p><ul> <li>Demonstrate extensive knowledge of changing understandings of and approaches tomental illness since circa 1800</li></ul></div><p><strong>Intellectual skills</strong></p><ul> <li>Plaace understandings of the mind and approaches to mental illness in their historical contexts</li> <li>Understand secondary literature on the history of mental illness in their theoretical and historiographical contexts</li> <li>Critique approaches to mental illness based on an understanding of their history</li> <li>Identify potentially fruitful topics for research projects in the history of psychiatry and mental illness</li></ul><p><strong>Practical skills</strong></p><ul> <li>Place understandings of the mind and approaches to mental illness in their historical contexts</li> <li>Understand secondary literature on the history of mental illness in their theoretical and historiographical contexts</li> <li>Critique approaches to mental illness based on an understanding of their history</li> <li>Identify potentially fruitful topics for research projects in the history of psychiatry and mental illness</li></ul><p><strong>Transferable skills and personal qualities</strong></p><ul> <li>Discuss complex issues based on an understanding of their history</li> <li>Work independently on a research project</li> <li>Work effectively in a team, leading or following when appropriate, and contributing and listening</li></ul> <div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div> 2 Written assignment (inc essay) 100% <p>Detailed written feedback from primary assessor.&nbsp;</p> MSc Hist of Sci, Tech & Med FT MSc Hist of Sci, Tech & Med FT PGDT Taught Component Optional MSc Hist of Sci, Tech & Med PT MSc Hist of Sci, Tech & Med PT PGDT Taught Component Optional N Seminars 12 0 138