Ateneo - UPO

This course presents the development of the interpretation of disease, its prevention and its treatment from prehistoric and ancient times with a particular focus on dentistry.

Teaching material will be provided to the students.

Textbook: Starobinski J. Histoire de la Médecine. Editions Héros-Limite (Suisse), 2020.

To gather information on the evolution of medicine and the health professions, improving knowledge concerning the fundamental changes through the periods.

The student needs a general historical background, as that acquired in pre-university education, and the information acquired in the previous years of the course.

Teaching class that includes discussion, reading of historical texts,videos.

Students with physical disabilities, Learning Disabilities or Special Education Needs can request specific services and tools via the Staff Sviluppo e Coordinamento Carriere e Servizi alle Studentesse e agli Studenti, consulting the University webpage: https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/services-students-physical-or-learning-disabilities Students with disabilities, learning disabilities or special education needs, once they have contacted the University Staff, can refer to the tutor in charge of the course to define the examination modalities, concerning academic aspects.

Written examination on subjects discussed in class, with a multiple choice test. The test will be performed simultaneously with the other topics belonging to the same Course.

The course will cover the following topics
• Medicine in prehistory
• Greco-Roman medicine
• Arabian medicine;
• Medicine in the Middle Age and Renaissance;
• The epidemics: Black Plague, Syphilis and Smallpox;
• Medicine and Surgery in the Sixteen-Seventeen Centuries;
• The Nineteen Century:
• The XX century

The student will acquire general information on the history of Medicine and health-care.