Medicine and Surgery

At the end of the course the student will have to: • be able to frame the main theoretical and practical developments of medicine historically • possess an adequate historical perception of the evolution of the concept of illness in relation to the development of knowledge and strategies of medical-scientific investigation • be aware of the conceptual and methodological challenges of the genomic revolution in medicine • be able to apply the concepts learned to the historical reconstruction of the strategy of conceptualization of a particular disease • be able to know the main conceptual and theoretical models of the doctor-patient relationship Epistemology of Medicine Epistemology of Medicine II Cognitive Biases and Medical Decisions What is Pseudomedicine and How to Recognize It From Medical Ethics to Bioethics DNA Sequencing Topics, Principles, and Values ​​of Bioethics Founding Documents of Bioethics End-of-Life Ethics Journal Club on Observational Articles Beginning-of-Life Ethics

Medica and scientific methodology I and II

G. Corbellini, Storia e teorie della salute e della malattia, Carocci, Roma, 2015 G. Corbellini, C. Lalli, Bioetica per perplessi. Una guida ragionata, Mondadori, Milano, 2016 Texts and slides are downloadable online.

In presence

Domande con risposte multiple e domande aperte

Frontal teaching with stimulated discussions