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CODE 58009
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/02
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 1° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

To start the training path of the future doctor with full exposure to all the intercultural and interdisciplinary dimension of the profession, through a survey of the evolution of medical thought and of the challenging great ethical issues of today’s world.

To identify medicine as space and perspective for human care, in a comprehensive view embracing the complexity of humans as subjects / objects of care, the interplay of health and disease, the wealth of care practices.

To promote awareness of the relevance of Medical Humanities in the development of the medical training curriculum.

The course includes numerous, supposedly separate topics in order to represent the richness and variety of medicine, with a view to highlight its manifold anthropological, cultural and ethical issues at play.

TEACHING METHODS

The course includes lectures, seminars, video projections and small group classroom activities.

Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, shall reach out to the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liase and arrange the specific teaching methods and ensure proper achievement of the learning aims and outcomes.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Classroom work will include seminars involving contributions of scholars with a varied cultural background, in the fields of biology and human sciences. In particular, topics will touch on the epistemology of medicine, history of medical thought, anthropology of health, and ethics of care, organized in the following sessions:

THE CONCEPT OF HEALTH, DISEASE AND CARE OVER TIME

MIND AND BODY: A SINGLE ENTITY

CARE OF THE HUMAN PERSON

RETHINKING MEDICINE

LIFE END 

THE EVOLUTION OF MEDICINE

 CARE APPROACHES

In addition, practical information will be provided on the organization of the medical curriculum and on student’s access to the main utilities available online from the UNIGE site.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aulaweb platform

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GIANLUCA DAMONTE (President)

NICOLA GIOVANNI GIRTLER (President)

EZIO FULCHERI

ROSAGEMMA CILIBERTI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

October 18, 2022

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
10/10/2024 14:00 GENOVA Compitino Aula Infolinguistica, Polo didattico Alberti - 3° piano, via Alberti L.B. 4, GENOVA
14/10/2024 14:00 GENOVA Compitino Aula Infolinguistica, Polo didattico Alberti - 3° piano, via Alberti L.B. 4, GENOVA
17/01/2025 09:00 GENOVA Compitino
17/01/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
05/02/2025 09:00 GENOVA Compitino
05/02/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
28/02/2025 14:00 GENOVA Scritto
08/04/2025 09:00 GENOVA Compitino
08/04/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
13/06/2025 09:00 GENOVA Compitino
13/06/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
09/07/2025 15:00 GENOVA Compitino
09/07/2025 15:00 GENOVA Scritto
17/09/2025 15:00 GENOVA Compitino
17/09/2025 15:00 GENOVA Scritto