Ateneo - UPO

Introduction: concepts of health and illness; instability of diseases and pathocenosis; demographic history - pathologies related to variations of demographic parameters. Medicine and the role of the doctor in the its historical development. Ancient Greece and Hippocrates. Hellenistic and Roman medicine. Galen and his anatomy-physiological system. Medieval medicine and the Salernitan school. The Renaissance and the Anatomical Revolution: Vesalio.
The seventeenth century: Harvey and the blood circulation; iatophysics and iatrochemistry. The microscope and the origins of pathological anatomy. The theory cell and the emergence of cellular pathology: Rudolph Virchow.

Variolisation, vaccination, social and hygienic-preventive medicine.

The nineteenth century: the birth of experimental medicine: general anesthesia, sepsis and antisepsis, birth of surgery and microbiology: Pasteur e Koch. The twentieth century: advances in drug therapy, evolution technology, using knowledge in social reality. Problems of contemporary medicine.

Conforti M, Corbellini G, Gazzaniga V- Dalla cura alla scienza - EncycloMedia 2011

Cosmacini G - L'arte lunga. Storia della Medicina dall'Antichità ad oggi - Laterza 2011

William Bynum, Breve storia della nuova scienza, Salani, Milano 2015.

Through this program, the student will be introduced in story of science and realize how the discipline is characterized by mutable dynamics. Focus on the notions necessary to understand the development of medical science from the dawn of Western civilization to today, the progress, the plan for the further growth.
History of science is young and speed evolution: there are some revolution that are most important for the development: only with the knowledge, the students can understand through and through the evolution and the human and etical culture.

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Frontal lessons.

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Oral examination. The test provides 4 questions regarding the topics studied throughout the program, and discussing one Report / Research prepared by the student on a previously agreed topic with the teacher.

Definition of medicine and the origins of man’s role of the history of medicine. From instinctive medicine to conventional medicine. In the Greek-Roman classic world. Contagiously transmitted medicine. European Middle Ages and the study of Medicine in Universities. Science revolution of the Renaissance.
In the century of Galileo and Baroque medicine. Medicine in the Age of Light. Towards New Conceptions of illness. Contradictions spanning two centuries.
Nineteenth-century hospitals and places of care. Heading towards the safety in surgery. The conquest of microbial theory. In the new dimension of biological knowledge. The rapport between the clinics and the labs. The social and health organization commitment. The victorious pathways of the clinic in the diagnosis and therapy. Within and outside the boundaries of medicine: mental illness since the mid-twentieth century

Historical dimensions and specific language related to the training topics in medical fields besides the use of pedagogical methodology for the development of the doctor-patient relationship.