Scheda programma d'esame
DEMOETHNOANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCIPLINES AND THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
ROSALBA CIRANNI
Academic year2019/20
CourseNURSING AND MIDWIFERY SCIENCES
Code016MF
Credits6
PeriodSemester 2
LanguageItalian

ModulesAreaTypeHoursTeacher(s)
DISCIPLINE DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGICHEM-DEA/01LEZIONI24
FRANCESCO VARRICCHIO unimap
STORIA DELLA MEDICINA E BIOETICAMED/02LEZIONI24
ROSALBA CIRANNI unimap
Syllabus

MEDICINE HISTORY PROGRAM

  1. Definitions of health and disease.
  2. Egyptian Medicine. General characters; the doctor-patient relationship; paleopathology and pathocenosis definitions
  3. Greek medicine. The medicine of Asclepius. Achaean disease and differential diagnosis. The

Schools of Magna Grecia. Hippocrates' medicine and humoral theory. The oath. The

post-hippocratic medicine and the Alexandria School

  1. Roman Medicine: Traditional Roman medicine. Greek medicine in Rome. Medical Sects

       Claudio Galeno. The physiology of circulation. Experimentalism of Galen. The

       Galenic dogma.

  1. Byzantium and the Arabs: Byzantium's medicine; Arabic medicine for translators.
  2. Medieval medicine. The state of medicine in the west. Christian and medieval concept

       of illness. Improvised medicines and theurgic medicine. Monastic medicine. The

       Medical schools of Arab ancestry

  1. The Salerno Medical School. Origins and concepts. The great doctors of the Salerno School.

      Birth of uroscopy as a science of observation.

  1. History of Anatomy. From its origins to the 14th century. Mondino de Liuzzi. Leonardo da Vinci. Andrew

         Vesalio, the "Factory" and the anatomical revolution.

  1. From the Renaissance to the 17th century. Paracelsus, Fracastoro and others. Birth of the experimental method. Iatrochemistry. Iatromechanics. Santorio and Borrelli.
  1.  From the Century of Enlightenments to the twentieth century. Birth of occupational medicine. The problem of contagion.
  1. On the 19th century. Rational thinking and experimentalism State of therapy. Skepticism

      therapeutic. The example of malaria. Alternative medicines. The birth of homeopathy. History of             tuberculosis. The development of microbiology. The development of technology. History of                     endoscopy.

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