HI-214
Reading list HI-214 / Pensumliste HI-214.
The students should set up their own curriculum text list for the exam, of minimum 800 text pages. This list is to be handed in by November 6th, and must be approved by the tutors in advance. (This is the responsibility of the student.) The curriculum texts must cover the topics of the lectures and the excursion. The list must include the compulsory texts on the list below, and is advised to include the rest of the text among the recommended texts.
Main texts, compulsory:
Roy Porter: The greatest benefit to mankind, Harper Collins Publ. 1999.
Pages: 3-43, 245-461, 628-667, 668-709.
Compendium with different articles, available ultimo August.
Recommended texts:
Ole Moseng: Ansvaret for undersåttenes helse 1700-1850, Det norske helsevesenets historie
bd. 1, Universitetsforlaget 2003
Pages: 77-315.
Aina Schiøtz: Folkets helse landets styrke 1850-2003, Det norske helsevesenets historie bd. 2,
Universitetsforlaget 2003
Pages: 16-21, 25-168.
Or:
May-Brith Ohman Nielsen: Mennesker, makt og mikrober. Epidemibekjempelse og hygiene
på Sørlandet 1830-1880, Fagbokforlaget 2008.
Or:
J.N. Hays: The burden of disease. Epidemics and human response in western history, Rutgers
University press, London 2003.
Baldwin, Peter : Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830-1930, Cambridge University Press;
New York, 1999. (This is an e-book to be accessed through HIA’s online library)
Additional film/drama/literary supplement requires familiarity with topic and main content.
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
Albert Camus, The Plague
Henrik Ibsen: Enemy of the People.
Jens Bjørneboe: Semmelweis
Snow, John: On the Mode of the Communication of Cholera, London 1855.
/ BBC “The Sewer King”.
Please notice: Changes might occur! / Med forbehold om endringer.
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