Teaching Medical, Healthcare, and Disability History

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

This roundtable draws on the expertise of historians who teach topics on Soviet, Russian, and global healthcare/ medical/ disability history. Panel members will discuss integrating research into teaching syllabi; making syllabi diverse and inclusive; organising and updating course content; and different types of sources and assessments. What is it that we want our students to take away from a module on Soviet or global healthcare/ medical/ disability history? How does teaching the history of healthcare/ medicine/ disability enable us to engage with important discussions about gender, race, class, and ethnicity, and to focus on the voices of the marginalised or oppressed? In this roundtable we will discuss the importance of including the history of medicine, healthcare, and disability in our syllabi. The roundtable format will allow presenters to discuss this topic in a structured format.

Sub Unit

• History: 1945-1990

Chair

• Susan Grant, Liverpool John Moores U (UK)

Roundtable Members

• Frances Lee Bernstein, New York U

• Susan Grant, Liverpool John Moores U (UK)

• Kenneth Martin Pinnow, Allegheny College

• Matthew P. Romaniello, Weber State U