AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching aims to:

provide students with the basic notions of the history of medical ars in a global view of the past, determining the influences exerted on the development of medical thought and the impact of this on other areas of knowledge and on human behavior;
provide students with a general understanding of the meaning of the biomedical ideas of our time, through the history of their evolution;
introduce students to a critical understanding of the historical path of medicine;
make students acquire the ability to understand the scientific and human character of medicine and nursing;
develop in students the ability to integrate theoretical and practical nursing knowledge with socio-cultural and humanistic sciences useful for understanding the complexity of individuals of all ages, groups and communities.

TEACHING METHODS

Oral lecturing

In the event of a health emergency that prevents frontal lessons, the  lessons will be carried out remotely using the Office365-Teams platform in synchronous or asynchronous mode.

Please refer to the specific AulaWeb application for teaching for any updates due to changes in the health and epidemiological situation.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The program includes a first very general historical part and a second part carried out not in a chronological sense but in a thematic sense.

The course is based on a program aimed at the development of specific themes rather than a chronological treatment of characters, thoughts and discoveries (the History of thematic diachronic medicine rather than chronology of events).
In detail, the program provides for the analysis and in-depth study of the following issues:

Sources and Egyptian civilization; Greek medicine and pre-Hippocratic medical-naturalistic speculation. - - - - Hippocrates: disease, prognosis and therapy

- Aristotle and Hellenistic thought

Rome and Italic medicine: Galen

- Monastic medicine. Salerno school

- The birth of universities as a center of thought and culture.

- The foundations of the new anatomical thought: the anatomical dissection from Mondino dè Liuzzi to Vesalius and the anticipations of Leonardo da Vinci. Vesalius and the new Anatomy. The donation of the body to research. The development and discoveries of Normal Human Anatomy to date. The experimental method: Galilei. Harvey's blood circulation.

- The evolution of the doctor-patient relationship

- Pathological anatomy. Morgagni's method. History of the autopsy. Virkow's cell theory. Experimentation in medicine.

- The smallpox vaccination. Sepsis and anti sepsis. Microbiology from Pasteur to Koch. The epidemiology of infectious diseases: epidemics

- From X-rays to CT scans. The history of medical imaging. The birth of interventional radiology

- Health and minors

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

LIPPI D., Storia della medicina per gli studenti del corso di Laurea Triennale per Infermiere, Bologna, Clueb 2002.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ROSAGEMMA CILIBERTI

MARIANO MARTINI

JESSY PERINJERY

LAURA STICCHI

LUCIA VASSALINI

GIANCARLO ALESSANDRO ICARDI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

ROBERTA CENTANARO (President Substitute)

ANDREA ORSI (President Substitute)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written test

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Written test

FURTHER INFORMATION

On appointment. Contact the teacher by email: rosellaciliberti@yahoo.it