83145 - HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Outline the history of the medical sciences from classic times till today, focusing on the birth of morpho-functional disciplines, the concept of disease throughout the ages, and the progress of surgical and therapeutic sciences.

Contenuti

Lesson 1 – Introduction and course overview. History of medicine as cultural history: over time changes in definitions of body, health and disease in Western medicine. Concept of pain. EBM and NBM. The monographic part deals with anatomy and explores the Middle Ages at the University of Bologna.

Lesson 2 – History of medicine as social history of diseases: from the plague of Galen to Coronavirus. Illness, sickness and disease. The monographic part deals with epidemiology and development of public health.

Lesson 3 – History of medicine as history of a profession. The changing role of medicine and healing practices through time. Development of the profession from healer and herbalist to robots. The monographic part deals with artificial intelligence in medicine.

Lesson 4 – History of medicine as history of science, advancements of medical technologies and therapeutics. The monographic part deals with ancient surgical instruments located in Possati library, University of Bologna.

Testi/Bibliografia

The slides shown during the lessons are available at the Web site: https://virtuale.unibo.it/

Username e password are reserved to students of Bologna University.

Pdfs with the powerpoint presentations of the lectures will be the material to be reviewed for the written exam at the end of the course.

Suggested readings to explore further the topics covered in class:

1) A Global History of Medicine Edited by Mark Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2018

Metodi didattici

Lectures with slides

Peer-reviewed scientific videos

Class discussion

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Written test (for examination dates, see almaesami.unibo.it)

The test consists of 4-choice questions. Only one answer is correct. There are no penalties for wrong or blank answers.

The test must be completed in 45 minutes.

Module CFU Questions

History of Medicine 1 4

Ethics and Behavioural Sciences        2   8

Medical Statistics and Epidemiology     2 8

Scientific Research Methodology 1 4

Determinant of Health and Disease 2 8

Number of right answers Marks

31/32 30L

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<18 Fail

≥18 and 0 right answers in any module: Fail

Exam marks are published within 3 days on AlmaEsami.

The student can refuse the marks within 5 days from publication by emailing Prof. Rucci (paola.rucci2@unibo.it). All refusals must be sent from the institutional email address @studio.unibo.it

After 6 days from publication the acceptance will be taken for granted and the exam will be recorded.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Power point presentations.

Presentation of short movies

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Patrizia Fughelli