This is a joint programme from GCU, the University of Strathclyde and The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare.
The MSc in Health History explores the last two-and-a-half centuries to seek the origins and impacts of our modern health experiences and expectations, together with the reasons they’ve changed so rapidly. It examines a variety of issues such as the:
development of psychiatry since its birth in the 19th century
rise of regulation for drugs and medicines
impact of warfare on medical technologies
challenges faced by those seeking to transform the health of British children
changes and continuities in health and healthcare in Britain since 1800
effects of work and workplaces on individual and environmental health
concepts of and treatments for mental health in modern societies
intersection of gender, sexuality and health since 1800
The degree is suitable for those from humanities, social science and health science backgrounds as well as those who have worked in the health professions.
Entry Requirements
UK honours degree 2:2 (or equivalent) in history or related discipline.
The Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare has been awarded a number of Wellcome Trust studentships to fund the brightest students to undertake our MSc in Health History programme. Find out more information about the studentships.
To recognise academic achievement, the Dean’s International Excellence Award offers international students a merit-based scholarship of up to £4,000 towards the first year of tuition fees of a full-time Masters programme in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Module Details
Compulsory class
Research Skills, Sources & Methods for Historians
Optional classes
Four to be chosen
Advanced Oral History
Pharmaceuticals, Ethics and Health: 1800-1980
Health & Healthcare in the Long 19th Century
Governing Highs & Health: History & the Control of Drugs, c.1800-1945
Medicine and Warfare, 1800-2000
Medicine, Health & the Moving Image
Food and Health in the West during the 20th Century
Gender, Health and Modern Medicine Since 1800
Work Placement in History
Fleshy Histories: Meat Eating & Meat Avoidance, 1500 to the Present
Medicine & Madness: Psychiatry in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
History, Health & Heritage (from 2020-21 entry)
Media & Health
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