Overview
An interdisciplinary examination of changing understandings and priorities of health and medicine in the New Zealand context.
Doctors are held to the idea that they should do no harm, but how have ideas of harm and help been navigated by the medical establishment in New Zealand? What do these interactions between state and society look like? This paper explores New Zealand’s complex and unique medical history through six key modules on gender; race, colonisation, and eugenics; mental health; ethics and experiments; war and medicine; and medicine and vice.
This paper will appeal to anyone interested in the history of health and medicine and is designed to complement a variety of disciplines, such as History, Public Health, Law, Criminology, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Politics, and Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies.
About this paper
| Paper title | Special Topic: Healers, Helpers or Horrors? Medicine and Health in New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Subject | History |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 1 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,103.10 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- One 100-level HIST paper or 54 points
- Schedule C
- Arts and Music
- Contact
- More information link
- Teaching staff
Coordinator and Lecturer: Dr Claire Macindoe
- Textbooks
All material for this course is provided electronically.
- Course outline
Available via Blackboard.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Information literacy, Research.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.- Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper will gain:
- A greater depth of knowledge on the changing nature of health and medicine over time
- An understanding of how contemporaneous medical knowledge was used in different population settings
- Experience engaging with relevant primary sources
- Obtain an appreciation of interdisciplinary perspectives and key concepts in the field
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Overview
An interdisciplinary examination of changing understandings and priorities of health and medicine in the New Zealand context.
Doctors are held to the idea that they should do no harm, but how have ideas of harm and help been navigated by the medical establishment in New Zealand? What do these interactions between state and society look like? This paper explores New Zealand’s complex and unique medical history through six key modules, including gender; race, colonisation, and eugenics; mental health; ethics and experiments; war and medicine; and medicine and vice.
This paper will appeal to anyone interested in the history of health and medicine and is designed to complement a variety of disciplines, such as History, Public Health, Law, Criminology, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Politics, and Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies.
About this paper
| Paper title | Special Topic: Healers, Helpers or Horrors? Medicine and Health in New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Subject | History |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 1 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for 2027 have not yet been set |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- One 100-level HIST paper or 54 points
- Schedule C
- Arts and Music
- Contact
- More information link
- Teaching staff
Co-ordinator and Lecturer: Dr Claire Macindoe
- Textbooks
All material for this course is provided electronically.
- Course outline
Available via Aoroa.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Information literacy, Research.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.- Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper will gain:
- A greater depth of knowledge on the changing nature of health and medicine over time
- An understanding of how contemporaneous medical knowledge was used in different population settings
- Experience engaging with relevant primary sources
- Obtain an appreciation of interdisciplinary perspectives and key concepts in the field