THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING
Course objectives
Learning outcomes: Learn the basics of bioethics and medical deontology. The course focuses mostly on the different approaches to patient’s autonomy along the history of Western medicine. Case studies and relevant issues (abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, ethics of genetic research, death definition, living will, etc.) are analyzed along the course. The student will be able to frame a clinical case in a bioethical perspective, correctly identifying the bioethical actors, their rights, and their duties, according to several bioethical approaches.
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MARIA CONFORTI
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
History of medicine
- general features
- antiquity and middle ages: surgery and its early history
- early modern and Enlightenment: the beginnings of rehabilitation
- 19th and 20th centuries developments
- history of the healing professions, history of hospitals and public health
Elements of bioethics and of medical philosophy
Prerequisites
In order to be able to follow the teaching, the student must possess some basic notions of history and philosophy, as in a standard Italian high school course
Books
Roy Porter, Blood and Guts, 2017
Frequency
Mandatory attendance
Exam mode
30 quizzes + 1 question with an open answer
- Academic year2025/2026
- CourseMedicine and Surgery
- CurriculumSingle curriculum
- Year2nd year
- Semester1st semester
- SSDMED/02
- CFU2