ETHICS AND MORAL PRINCIPLES
Channel 1
VALENTINA GAZZANIGA
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
Medical Humanities and medicine. Origins and History of Bioethics: principles, models and documents. Ethics of science and public perception of the ethical dimensions in medicine. History of medical experimentation. Ethics and integrity of science. Ethics and communication in medicine. Narrative medicine: dual and social communication.
Prerequisites
None
Books
G. Corbellini, C. Lalli, Bioetica per perplessi. Mondadori
Teaching mode
Lectures
Frequency
Mandatory
Exam mode
Multiple choices answer text
Lesson mode
Lectures
SILVIA IORIO
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Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
Human sciences and medicine: why MH in a Medical Degree? Narrative medicine;Evolution of the concept of illness and disease, medicine as culture; from the ontological and theurgic conception to genetic pathologies health and disease in the Ancient age; health and disease in the Middle Age; health and disease in the Modern Age ; health and disease in the contemporary age; the idea of contagion and the development of bacteriology; experience and experiment in medicine; from empiricism to the measurement of phenomena in medicine; from didactic dissection to anatomy; - pathological anatomy and cellular pathology; epistemological revolutions of medical science; history of health care; the critical analysis of interaction between biomedical services and population; the impact of biomedicine and biomedical technologies; illness-sickness-disease; Equity in Health; determinants oh health; bio-psyhco-social approach; structural violence; social suffering; neuroscience;
Books
Berlinguer G., 2000, Bioetica quotidiana, Firenze, Giunti.
Good, Byron J, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sharon Abramowitz, Arthur Kleinman, and Catherine Panter-Brick. 2014. Medical humanitarianism: Research insights in a changing field of practice. Social Science & Medicine 120:311 - 316. Publisher's Version
Byron Good, 2006, Narrare la malattia. Lo sguardo antropologico sul rapporto medico paziente, Torino, Einaudi.
Yang, Lawrence H, et al. 2014.What matters most: A cultural mechanism moderating structural vulnerability and moral experience of mental illness stigma. Social Science & Medicine 103:84 - 93. Publisher's VersionAbstract
Conforti M., Corbellini G., Gazzaniga V., 2011, Dalla cura alla scienza. Malattia, salute e società nel mondo occidentale, Encyclomedia PublishersBeauchamp
- Academic year2025/2026
- CourseMedicine and Surgery HT
- CurriculumSingle curriculum
- Year1st year
- Semester2nd semester
- SSDMED/02
- CFU2