Theoretical Frameworks in the History of Health Care

EVERYONE: read this blog post

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210204.432267/full Links to an external site.

Questions to consider:

What does white supremacy have to do with public health?

What are 'positivist paradigms of science' and why are they problematic?

What are anti-racist, critical race and decolonizing theories and how does studying history fit in?

What do I mean about 'positionality'?

What are some ethical issues when researching or writing about the history of health care?

 

Historical methodology:

Jordanova History In Practice. Download Jordanova History in Practice-1.pdf

 

See also the book Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings in the Library catalogue as an ebook.

Is writing history traumatizing? https://newrepublic.com/article/161127/can-historians-traumatized-history Links to an external site.

 

Theoretical frameworks to explore for your own work (I have included PDFs from people who use these theories within health care/history)

History and theory: Download Scott etc History of the present.pdf

  

Reparatory History: Download Scott reparatory history.pdf

  

Governmentality/Discipline/The medical gaze (Foucault): Download Holmes_et_al-2002-Journal_of_Advanced_Nursing Governmentality.pdf

  

Critical Race Theory: Download Critical Race Theory in Public Health.pdf

  

Antiracism: (Jones): Download Jones antiracism.pdf

  

Intersectionality (Crenshaw): Download The Priority of Intersectionality in Academic Medicine.pdf

  

Reproductive Justice (Ross): Download Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism.pdf

  

Decolonization: Download racine postcolonialism 1.pdf

  

Also check out this book: https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/decolonizing-methodologies Links to an external site.

Poststructuralism: Download Holmes et al POSTSTRUCTURALISM.pdf

  

Posthumanism: Download Wright etc ANS.pdf

  

Racial capitalism: Download racial capitalism covid.pdf