The History of Human Disease Diploma Course

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What Will You Learn?

From ancient medical rituals to modern vaccination programs, explore the human body in health and disease. Delve into the triumphs and tragedies of diseases that have shaped civilisations.

Take this whistle-stop tour of the history of disease in humans. Learn how humanity has conceptualised, treated, contained, prevented, politicised, legislated, and cured diseases.

Explore the captivating interplay between politics, cures, and the relentless pursuit of wellness. Immerse yourself in times of leeches and leprosy, amoebas and antibiotics. Explore the relationship between magic and medicine. Investigate ancient medical manuals, meet the Yoruba god of smallpox, and follow the Silk Road with the Black Death.

Global in its scope, this history of human disease course incorporates primary sources and case studies. Working chronologically, you’ll discover notable diseases and learn modern historiographical concepts. You’ll evaluate evidence and situate diseases within their cultural and historical contexts.

By studying this course, you will learn the following:

  • Medical ideas of the ancient world
  • Medieval theories about the body, humours, and cures
  • The relationships between religion, magic, and medicine
  • The history of plagues, pandemics, and vaccines
  • The transmission of local diseases in a globalising world
  • The impact of disease on military campaigns
  • The changing definitions of disease through time
  • The effect of class, gender, and race on the experience of disease
  • Modern medical research and advancements
  • Contemporary policies of disease control and mitigation.
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Course Syllabus

What will I learn on the course?

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  • Introduction
  • Part 1: The Ancient World
  • Part 2: Ancient Dynastic Egypt (3300 BCE – 30 BCE)
  • Part 3: Graeco-Roman Foundations of the Western Tradition
  • Part 4: Codifying Medicine in Ancient Asia
  • Part 5: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 6: Case Study – Tuberculosis
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 1 Assessment
  • Part 1: The Medieval World
  • Part 2: The Golden Age of Islamic Education
  • Part 3: Mongolian Medicine and the Spread of the Empire
  • Part 4: Medieval European Bodies and Emotions
  • Part 5: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 6: Case Study – Leprosy
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 2 Assessment
  • Part 1: The Early Modern World
  • Part 2: Religion and Disease in African Traditions
  • Part 3: Medicine and Magic in the Pre-Colombian Americas
  • Part 4: Witches, Healers, and Cunning-folk in European Thought
  • Part 5: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 6: Case Study – Smallpox
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 3 Assessment
  • Part 1: Setting the Scene
  • Part 2: Contagion and Containment
  • Part 3: Theories of Plague: Causes and Cures
  • Part 4: The Invention of the Vaccine
  • Part 5: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 6: Case Study – Bubonic Plague
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 4 Assessment
  • Part 1: The Age of Empire
  • Part 2: Global Disease Transmission
  • Part 3: Developing New Medical Knowledge
  • Part 4: A Shift from the Galenic Model
  • Part 5: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 6: Case Study - Malaria
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 5 Assessment
  • Part 1: The Advent of Modern Warfare
  • Part 2: Disease and Military Campaigns
  • Part 3: The Scramble for Africa
  • Part 4: Shrapnel Wounds and Gunpowder Burns
  • Part 5: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 6: Case Study – Dysentery
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 6 Assessment
  • Part 1: Setting the Scene
  • Part 2: Hidden Stigmas
  • Part 3: Morality and the Body
  • Part 4: The Advent of Psychology
  • Part 5: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 6 : Case Study – Syphilis
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 7 Assessment
  • Part 1: Intersectionalising Illness
  • Part 2: Gendered Medical Access
  • Part 3: Class and Stereotype in Ideas of Disease
  • Part 4: Racialisation and Rights
  • Part 5: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 6: Case Study – HIV/AIDS
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 8 Assessment
  • Part 1: The Twentieth Century
  • Part 2: Penicillin: The Wonder Drug
  • Part 3: The Diseases of Modern Life
  • Part 4: Public Health Progress
  • Part 5: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 6: Case Study: Cholera
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 9 Assessment
  • Part 1: Policies and Politics of Disease
  • Part 2: The Economy of Diseases
  • Part 3: Present Policy
  • Part 4: Primary Source Analysis
  • Part 5: Case Study - Influenza
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points Exercise
  • Module 10 Assessment
Who Would Benefit from This Course?

This course is ideal for students, researchers, historians, and medical professionals. Anyone interested in the human body in health and disease and how humans have conceptualised illness and wellness will enjoy the course.

It also provides a broad foundation for further study. You'll learn how to critically evaluate historical evidence about diseases and contextualise them within a broader historical knowledge.

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Accreditations

The The History of Human Disease Diploma Course will take up to 150 hours to complete, working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course; it can be studied in your own time at your own pace.

This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

This course is endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme. Therefore, upon successful completion of this course, learners can also receive a certificate of achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary, which lists the details of all the units the learner has completed as part of the course. (This certificate is optional and costs an additional £25).

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through their awarding organisations they have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. They are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

Their knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables them to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

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