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Graduate student project
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History
of Medicine Fall 2006 Graduate students will have an assignment in addition to the writing project being prepared by all students in the course. Below is a list of 14 chapters in the history of medicine, arranged chronologically. Each student is to choose 5 chapters (all topics must be covered, but no duplication), and will prepare a thorough and careful annotated bibliography of resources on the Web that would be useful to a reader.
Chapters in the History of Medicine1.
Paleopathology
and Primitive Man – health in prehistory 2.
Ancient
Middle East – supernaturalism and medicine 3.
India and
Asia – rise of the non-western medical traditions 4.
Greece
– supernaturalism and the emerging naturalistic medicine 5.
Rome and
Byzantium 6.
Medieval
Europe 7.
Non-European
Medicine, 700-1500 CE 8.
Early
Modern Europe – technological and theoretical change 9.
Early
Modern Europe – health, disease, trauma, and society 10.
19th
Century Medicine – dramatic change for societies and for individuals 11.
19th
Century Medicine – spread and development of European medicine 12.
20th
Century Medicine – professionalization and specialization of the new medicine 13.
20th
Century Medicine – new social and economic context of medicine 14.
Brave New
Century – dilemmas in the 21st century 15.
Additional
topic (to make 15) – a thorough search of the Library of Congress and
National Archive collections. The Annotated Bibliography In
terms of basic assumptions, put your bibliography into this context – pretend
you are writing a history of medicine textbook and the editor has insisted that
you include several web resources for each of your chapters that future students
could use for their own research. Further,
these resources must include primary sources and visuals.
Which ones would you include? Now… Having chosen the 5 chapters, each student is to prepare a thorough annotated bibliography of web resources for as many topics as possible for the chosen chapters. ·
Principally,
you are to find primary sources (in full text), document collections,
photographs and other art collections, etc. ·
Look
broadly, not just history of medicine, but try searches on such areas as
anthropology, economics, health care issues, history (general), geography,
political science, history of science, medical organizations (ex. WHO, or CDC) ·
Stay away
from: 1.
K-12
resources. Examples: “How to
teach a unit on Europe’s Black Death to 11th grade history
students”, or “Mrs. Smith’s 6th grade class assembles a list of
web resources on the history of medicine”.
If you find one like that, do check out their links (they may have found
a good one), but don’t use Mrs. Smith’s website as one of your entries. 2.
University
library holdings – often these appear on searches, but only indicate what
resources are available in their own library, not of any use unless you happen
to be standing at their circulation desk! Exception!:
if they have digital holdings that can be used online and off-site, these can be
included. ·
You can
use non-US sites, as long as they are in English and are completely available
for online users. · Keep your chapters separate, ie a separate bibliography for each chapter. · The Final Product – You are to turn in a hard copy of your annotations, and an additional disk copy listing of the sources. Please use either Word or WordPerfect for your work. Finally,
work together! If you find a source that might be good for one of your
co-workers, tell them about it! They may well return the favor! What to include in your annotation… ·
Obviously,
the correct, complete address. (Triple-check this!) ·
Authorship
of the site – who owns (is responsible for content) and operates it ·
Scope and
depth of site, topics covered ·
Download
time and ease of use ·
Use of
graphics ·
Links to
other useful sites ·
Types of
resources available (ex. Full text documents) (These
are the barest minimum for an entry. Try
to expand your annotation to the point that somebody reading it would know if
this was a site worth exploring for research in their history of medicine
topic.) If anybody is interested, at the end of the semester I will make xerox copies of all the bibliographies if you want them. A Sample Search 1. Go to Google.com and run a search on “History of medicine document collections”. 2.
Try the
one called “History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links” at www.mla.hhss.org/histlink.htm.
This site lists links to various collections including educational
programs, biographies, databases, bibliographies etc. 3.
Then
explore those links, for example “Databases”. 4.
Now
explore these links, for example, “Finding aids for archival collections”.
This site has a discussion of the scope and depth of a number of archival
holdings in the US on various historical topics. 5.
Now look
at some of these sites to see if any of them are useful. a.
In the
“California online resources”, none of the links are active – not a
heckuva lot of use, though you might go back to Google and search them out
there, for example, the California Historical Society. So, not a total
loss. b.
Library
of Congress does not work either, but the University of California Berkeley Art
Museum and Pacific Film Archive does. Try a search for “medicine”, or “illness”, “wars”,
etc. c.
I got a
hit on “medicine” – looked at “Features from the series “Currents:
Medicine”, but it was a dead end. d.
Go back
to the main page, try “Online Resources and Collections”, go to “Film
Collections”. But none of these
materials seem to be of use to an off-site user. e.
Therefore, the UCBAMPFA site is not going to be a resource you would want to
include in your annotated bibliography. 6.
Go back,
pick another link, and keep looking. What about length????? This
is the inevitable and invariable question.
I am not setting a specific number (though you should have at least 5
absolutely primo sites for each chapter).
Rather, your grade will depend heavily on how many high-quality sites you list and how
thoroughly you analize each of them. Remember,
you are graduate students and are expected to be beyond the undergraduate mentality of “how
little can I get away with”. ~~~~Happy hunting!!~~~~
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