Medicine, Technology and Identity(HI 269)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/undergraduate/modules/hi1269/

Lecture Times: Tuesdays at 1-2 Lectures explore social responses to medical and technological innovations from the early modern to the present.

Seminar provision: Weekly, hour-long seminars, Tuesdays 2-3/3-4.

Moving from the early modern period to the present day, this module examines the often controversial impact of medical and technological innovations on personal, familial, and social identities.

Case studies and examples for 2010-2011

from tattoos to fingerprints...

to organ transplantation and outer space.

… to the curious his-story of pregnant men…