2021/2022

2021/2022

DM270

MED/02 (HISTORY OF MEDICINE)

DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL-SURGICAL, DIAGNOSTIC AND PEDIATRIC SCIENCES

SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

(04/10/2021 - 21/01/2022)

1

8 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

MAZZARELLO PAOLO ANGELO - 1 ECTS

High school historical and scientific notions

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.

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.

Lessons
Practical aspects: visit to the Historical Museum of the University of Pavia.

Lecture notes at this website: file:///C:/Users/Paolo/Downloads/930003906Prof.Mazzarello.%20(1).pdf

Multiple choice and "gap-filling" tests

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