{"id":31,"date":"2010-10-05T06:20:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-01-09T12:23:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:53:26","slug":"victorian-dispensaries-and-hospitals-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/victorian-dispensaries-and-hospitals-106\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Dispensaries and Hospitals (10\/6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 10\/4, we discussed two scholarly articles on changing medical therapeutics and how the American medical system matured &#8211; which served as a workshop on becoming a more critical and discerning reader of scholarly articles. We also talked about how to find articles about the history of medicine and health care in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ew4rf2bf9n.search.serialssolutions.com\/\">university&#8217;s e-Journal resources<\/a> and using the (free) JSTOR database from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpl.org\/electronic\/#\">Boston Public Library&#8217;s electronic resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our reading for Wednesday 10\/6 is essays #19 and #20 in the Leavitt reader, and the pictorial essay found on pp. 295-305. We are talking along two parallel tracks &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The content, i.e. what visual and source record we have for the institutions where people received medical care in the Victorian era, and how those institutions changed over time<\/li>\n<li>The scholarly work, i.e. HOW historians use visual and documentary evidence to convince us that their interpretation of the past is correct<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember to keep in mind the suggestions and guideposts for being a &#8220;predatory reader&#8221; of scholarly material. Prepare thoughtful discussion questions for class &#8211; perhaps at least one for each &#8220;track&#8221; of our discussion = a question or two about the content of the article(s) AND a question or two about how these scholars approached the problem under consideration, their methods or sources, or how successful\/persuasive the essays are.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I posted the PDF of the Article Abstract assignment under the &#8220;Assignments and Due Dates&#8221; tab &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ArticleAbstractGuidelines.pdf\">click here to download a copy<\/a> if you need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 10\/4, we discussed two scholarly articles on changing medical therapeutics and how the American medical system matured &#8211; which served as a workshop on becoming a more critical and discerning reader of scholarly articles. We also talked about how to find articles about the history of medicine and health care in the university&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","tag-fall10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}