PUBLIC HEALTH|POPULATION HEALTH|HEALTH CARE|USER ENGAGEMENT

In this module, students will be introduced to a series of commonly used public health frameworks and learn how to apply learning from the MSc to real-world...

Ethics|History of Science and Medicine|Sociology of Science and Technology

This module explores the relationships between science, war and the prevention of war. It will place military and security technologies within social,...

This module explores the relationships between science, war and the prevention of war. It will place military and security technologies within social, political, and historical contexts. We place a particular emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on weapons usually designated as ‘unconventional’ or ‘weapons of mass destruction’. In addition to thinking about how science, technology and warfare have shaped each other, this module also considers the changing role of the scientist in relation to the state. It also considers broader themes, such as arms control, disarmament, ethics, and popular culture in relation to war. No prerequisites.

History|History of Science and Medicine|Sociology of Science and Technology

Much of the science around us today has been shaped by processes operating since approximately 1800. This module surveys the evolution of science over this...

Much of the science around us today has been shaped by processes operating since approximately 1800. This module surveys the evolution of science over this period and around the globe, with particular emphasis on science in the twentieth century. Science will be considered in its social, political and cultural contexts. Topics include science in different national contexts, science and war, the development of key new disciplines (such as quantum physics, relativity, genetics, particle physics) as well as the expansion of older ones. Emphasis will be on the physical and life sciences, with some comparative consideration of the social sciences.

The History of Asian Medicine aims to provide knowledge of the background and development of key concepts and practices in the history of Chinese medicine,...