PgDip Health History

The MSc in Health History is a research-led postgraduate programme which seeks to introduce students to a range of issues, controversies, debates, and specialist topics in the history of health and medicine. It provides specialist modules, taught by experts in the field; a sources and methods module which engages with both practical and intellectual issues in the history of medicine and of health and healthcare; and the opportunity to carry out an extended piece of original historical research and writing in the form of the dissertation. Students have the opportunity to explore a variety of themes such as:

The degree is suitable for those from humanities, social science and health science backgrounds as well as those who work or have worked in healthcare and are interested in learning about the history of their profession.

The MSc Health History is organised around the expertise of eighteen full-time staff members in the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow. The CSHHH is a collaboration between Strathclyde and Glasgow Caledonian University and Scotland’s largest centre for the history of health and medicine. Our experts all teach on the MSc class and have expertise in a range of fields, including the history of drugs and intoxicants, medicine and warfare, the history of birth control, the history of mental health, the history of maternal health and welfare, the history of disability and the history of public health.