2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
HIST5022M Global Health: Decolonising Histories, Politics and Practice
30 creditsClass Size: 14
Module manager: Professor Shane Doyle
Email: s.d.doyle@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as an Elective
Module summary
What is global health? Is it about the development of ideas in one location and their transfer to another? Or is it about national and sub-national units coming together to work with different forms of international governance to develop and implement health programmes? Clearly, definitions, planning and practice depend on perspective, which will be studied via critical historical, political and international relations analyses in this module which covers the history of global health from the late nineteenth century to the present day.Objectives
The module aims to:- Offer a specialist investigation of the history of international ideas about health from the late-nineteenth century to the present day.
- Help students understand the long-run development and implementation of policy and diplomacy relating to global health
- Highlight importance of a multitude of actors, agencies, and communities in international health practice and diplomacy
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Assess critically narratives surrounding the role of global health diplomacy and global health diplomatic interventions;
2. Identify and analyse the roles of a variety of diplomatic actors, at all levels of state and society;
3. Evaluate coherently global, international and national health diplomatic practices in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries with concrete historical examples and case studies;
4. Engage with the most recent literature on global health histories, medical history, international history, and international relations and diplomacy in a critical and nuanced manner.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5. Evaluate and assess different arguments and evidence and use evidence critically to form arguments and ideas;
6. Present complex arguments and ideas, both in written and spoken form;
7 Search for, evaluate and use appropriate and relevant information sources to strengthen the quality of academic work and independent research, whilst also developing a critical understanding of contemporary global health.
Syllabus
Starting at the late 19th century, this module examines the development of international ideas and actions in health – from its connections to European and US imperialism, to post-war political decolonisation, to the impact of newly independent polities around the world with a new multilateral infrastructure involving the United Nations and its specialist agencies. Apart from critically examining the development and implementation of policies, we will also look at community engagement and feedback, which often redesigned projects and programmes in unimaginable ways. Here, an examination of civil society resistance and support will be studied in complex ways, in the understanding that both state and society were multi-layered. This will allow a complex understanding of decolonisation, where the production of attendant knowledge and political processes were not necessarily always centred on Europe and North America. We will end by discussing different kinds of and trends within global health, which will be seen both as a collaborative and competitive space where low and middle incomes countries often retained significant power through control over sites of implementation.
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Seminar | 11 | 2.00 | 22.00 |
| Private study hours | 278.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 22.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300.00 | ||
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Students will be required to submit for formative feedback an annotated bibliography. This bibliography will consist of twelve key texts, which relate to the topic of essay 1. Students will provide brief notes for each text explaining the texts’ historiographical significance and relevance to the essay question or core arguments. The bibliography will be submitted by week 4, so that formative feedback can be provided before the submission of essay 1.In addition, students will receive written feedback on their first essay from tutors and will be encouraged to meet with their tutor for in-person feedback as well, so that they can implement any lessons learned in their end-of-module essay.
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Essay | 1,500-word essay | 30.00 |
| Essay | 4,000-word essay | 70.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
1,500 word essay To be submitted in Teaching Week 7. 4,000-word essay To be submitted during week 1 of the exam period.
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 29/04/2024 16:15:06
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