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| Semester | spring semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Julia Tischler (julia.tischler@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Our course examines the health, healthcare, and healing of women and children in twentieth century Africa. We look at different bodies of knowledge connected to health and wellbeing as well as respective interventions, focusing on biomedicine as much as “traditional” health. Furthermore, we study the practices of healers, doctors, and nurses and these experts’ complex relations to the people they sought to heal. The course also examines the ways in which women’s and children’s health was politicized, as questions of reproduction became an important arena of political struggle. |
| Bibliography | Thomas, L., 2003, Politics of the Womb. Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya. Berkeley: University of California Press. Hunt, N. R., 1999, A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Durham: Duke University Press. |
| Admission requirements | Für Masterstudierende und fortgeschrittene Bachelorstudierende der Geschichte mit abgeschlossener Grundstufe (Nachweis von drei Proseminaren und den drei obligatorischen Proseminararbeiten). Bei Überbelegung kann die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt werden. In diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul Fachwissenschaft / Geschichte (Master's Studies: Educational Sciences) Modul: Analysefelder: Akteure - Erfahrungen - Praktiken (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Areas: aussereuropäisch (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Aufbau Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Public Health and Social Life (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree subject: History) Modul: Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Theory and General Anthropology (Master's degree subject: Anthropology) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Global Ageing and Health (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |