Anno immatricolazione
2021/2022
SSD
MED/02 (STORIA DELLA MEDICINA)
Dipartimento
DIPARTIMENTO DI MEDICINA MOLECOLARE
Corso di studio
MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA (IN LINGUA INGLESE)
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Periodo didattico
Primo Semestre (04/10/2021 - 14/01/2022)
Ore
8 ore di attività frontale
Lingua insegnamento
English
Prerequisiti
High school historical and scientific notions
Obiettivi formativi
The course of history of medicine will consider some significant turning points of the past of medicine to understand the present, explaining the process of transmission of mainly Western medical knowledge. Particular emphasis will be placed on the evolution of the concept of disease by analyzing in detail some basic conceptual articulations that are found at the origins of contemporary biomedicine.
These conceptual coordinates are proposed in order to provide students with the ability to perceive medicine and health, in all its ramifications, as a "process" historically changeable, to make them critically aware of the special dimension of knowledge and medical practice in the history and in the contemporary age.
In the course it will be given particular prominence in an ongoing confrontation with prejudices, uncritical and automatic intellectual fideistic beliefs that characterize the common perception of contemporary medicine, not so infrequently even among medical doctors.
Programma e contenuti
What is medicine? An introduction. Methodologial aspects. Chinese medicine. Greek medicine: Hippocrates and Galen. Roman medicine. Medieval medicine.
Renaissance: Vesalius, Leonardo Da vinci. The discovery of blood circulation: William Harvey.
the birth of microscopy. The evolution of the concept of pathology. The microbiological theory of infectious diseases. Vaccination. Antisepsis. The discovery of antibiotics. Recent developments.
Metodi didattici
Lessons.
Practical aspects: visit to the Historical Museum of the University of Pavia.
Testi di riferimento
Lecture notes Prof.s Paolo Mazzarello and Valentina Cani at: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Mazzarello/Documenti/Downloads/930003938Prof.Mazzarello.%20(3).pdf
Modalità verifica apprendimento
Multiple choice and gap-filling tests
Altre informazioni
Nothing
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