HUMAN SCIENCES Single channel

Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: SILVIA MARINOZZI

Module 1: GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

Activity type
Scienze umane e psicopedagogiche
SSD
M-PSI/01
Year
3rd year
Semester
2nd semester
CFU
2
Hours distribution
20 classroom hours
Lecturers
Luisa Marchionni

Module 2: HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Activity type
Scienze umane e psicopedagogiche
SSD
MED/02
Year
3rd year
Semester
2nd semester
CFU
2
Hours distribution
20 classroom hours
Lecturers
SILVIA MARINOZZI

Module 3: NURSING SCIENCES

Activity type
Attività formative affini o integrative
SSD
MED/45
Year
3rd year
Semester
2nd semester
CFU
1
Hours distribution
10 classroom hours
Lecturers
GERMANA BARTOLUCCI

Learning outcomes

the lessons are designed to provide the needed notions to understand the evolution of the medical science. In particular, the program aim to shed light on the relationship between medicine and society in the history, by a comparison with the actual medicine and the modern concept of health and medical profession the health professions

Prerequisites

Training and historical knowlodges

Programme

• Evolutions and persistence in the Western medical thought.
• Ontological notion of disease and the theurgic medicine in the Antiquity
• The development of laic and rational medicine: Hippocrates by Cos
• Medicus and chirurgus: the Roman medical specialties
• The greek-roman tradition in the medieval culture: the hospitals in the Arab world; assistance and health-care in the Western world.
• Universities and medical teaching: Vesalius and the development of the human anatomy in the XVI century
• The “Science” revolution and the application of the experimental method of G. Galilei to the anatomo-physiology in the XVII century.
• The influences of the Enlightenment thought on the development of the social role of medicine: hygiene and public health.
• G.B. Morgagni and the development of the pathological anatomy; X. Bichat : histology and morbid anatomy; R. Virchow and the Cellular Pathology.
• Hospitals and clinical medicine in the nineteenth century: T. Laennec and the exploration of the body; Experimental Medicine: C. Bernard and the new diagnostic reasoning, the concept of homeostasis; origins and development of the bacteriology and the microbiology: the antisepsis between Semmelweis and Lister; infectious diseases: L. Pasteur and the vaccination; the postulates of Henle and Koch;
• Introduction to Bioethics: Historical Origins, principles and models of bioethics: the Nuremberg Code of 1947 to the "Belmont Report" of 1978, the Declaration of Helsinki and the informed consent; the Hippocratic Oath, professional deontological and medical ethics
• Finally, the student must to know the history of the medical thought and be able to adopt the good medical practices

Books

ANGELETTI L.R., GAZZANIGA V., Storia, filosofia ed etica generale della medicina. Milano, Masson, 2014
• MARINOZZI S. (a cura di), Medicina, eugenica e Shoah. Sapienza University Press, 2017 ANGELETTI L.R., GAZZANIGA V., Storia, filosofia ed etica generale della medicina. Milano, Masson, 2014
• MARINOZZI S. (a cura di), Medicina, eugenica e Shoah. Sapienza University Press, 2017

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Sustainability goals

  • Goal4
  • Goal10
  • Goal16
  • Academic year2026/2027
  • Degree program to which the course belongsImaging and Radiotherapy techniques - Course G - Roma Ospedale S. Spirito
  • Languageita
  • CFU5 CFU, distributed among 3 integrated didactic modules
  • Total duration50 hours