Course program
Training objectives:
Knowing and knowing how to discuss the main stages of the evolution of the concept of health and illness - Knowing and knowing how to discuss the ethical principles that regulate the relationship between health worker and patient - Knowing the historical stages of the evolution of bioethical thinking, as well as the main bioethical issues
Program:
Medicine as science and culture (4 hours)
Historical origins of Bioethics (2 hours)
Texts and documents in Bioethics (2 hours)
Evolution of the concepts of illness and disease from Antiquity to Middle Ages (4 hours)
Evolution of the concepts of illness and disease from the Modern to the contemporary age (4 hours)
History of medical objects and instruments and history of the medical books (4 hours)
Prerequisites
historical knowledge in the general history of medicine
Books
M Conforti, G Corbellini, V Gazzaniga, Dalla cura alla scienza. Milano, Encyclomedia- e book
Frequency
Mandatory
Exam mode
Evaluation of a project and oral exams
Lesson mode
Frontal lessons. In necessary, we will use Meet or Classroom platforms