Biomedical Laboratory techniques

History and evolution of the concept of health and disease. Main scientific revolutions in medicine. Diseases in the past: paleopathology. Origins of medicine. From theurgical medicine to the Hippocratic revolution; concept of empirical medicine, origins of the relationship between medicine, society and institutions. Galeno and medicine in ancient Rome. Medieval medicine and the Medical School of Salerno. Experience and experiment in medicine: from empiricism to the measurement of phenomena in medicine. The physiological revolution and Harvey. From didactic dissection to the anatomical revolution of Vesalio. Giovan Battista Morgagni and the origins of pathological anatomy. Cell theory and cellular pathology: Rudolph Virchow. Experimental medicine and bacteriology: Claude Bernard, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. Origins of molecular medicine: the discovery of DNA structure; diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in medicine, predictive medicine, ethical implications.

Students must have passed the preparatory exams.

Support material provided by the teacher.

Compulsory attendance lectures.

The evaluation will be carried out on the basis of multiple-choice tests and oral questions.

Interactive face to face lectures supported by power point presentations.