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Teaching Staff

GUGLIELMO TROVATO - Module Principles of Demo-ethno-anthropology - M-DEA/01 - 2 CFU
IGNAZIO VECCHIO - Module STORIA DELLA MEDICINA - MED/02 - 2 CFU
AGOSTINO PALMERI - Module Bioethics - MED/02 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• STORIA DELLA MEDICINA
  

  The History of Medicine aims to provide the student in Medicine with the contents and paths of the evolution of medical thought over time, to contribute to the acquisition of knowledge and useful references to the present, with the aim of enriching the culture of student in Medicine and to make it a useful asset for research, clinic and assistance

• Bioethics
  

  Within the integrated course of Human Sciences of the degree course in Medicine and Surgery, the teaching of Medical Bioethics is intended to modulate, regulate and optimize the relationship between medical sciences and clinical practice according to a vision that begins with the scientific data and arrivals to regulatory aspects, in the light of the code of ethics as well as forecasts of the current constitutional and legal (general and special) precepts.

Course Structure

• Bioethics
  

  Frontal lessons.

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Detailed Course Content

• Principles of Demo-ethno-anthropology
  

  TOPICS

  Some definitions:

  What is the Demo-ethno-anthropology.

  Demology and Demography

  Anthropology

  Ethnology and Ethnography.

  Items of interest for the medical student and the doctor.

   

  Sensitive themes:

  Cultural challenges for health, disease and care.

  Some health determinants: neighborhood, lifestyles, nutrition, physical activity, personal care, pregnancy and childhood

  Old and new media and social networks

  Patients’, medical and scientific mobility; migration medicine.

   

  Overlapping areas with ethics, psychology and sociology: similarities and differences.

  Competitor factors: economic, climatic, religious.

• STORIA DELLA MEDICINA
  

  History of informed consent, and of the patient doctor relationship. History of euthanasia. History of transplants. History of medical schools in the Mediterranean. History of hospitals. History of the birth of universities. Women and Medicine. Egyptian medicine. Mesopotamian Medicine .. Medicine in the Greeks, Romans and the Middle Ages. Medicine from the 14th century to the 21st century. Jewish and Arabic Medicine. The great diagnostic and therapeutic discoveries

• Bioethics
  

  General Bioethics:

  • Definition and methodology of Bioethics
  • The ethics and country law
  • The Hippocratic Oath
  • The medical code of ethics
  • General tasks and duties of the doctor: independence and dignity of the profession
  • Protection of confidentiality: professional secret
  • Relationship with the patient: general rules of conduct
  • Medical Act, authority to do it, information to the patient and consent of the patient to treatment
    

  Clinical Bioethics:

  • Medical records: data protection
  • Refusal of treatment
  • Bioethics of beginning and end of life: the concept of brain death and organ transplants; euthanasia
  • Abortion; assisted reproduction
  • Therapeutic obstinacy
  • Living will
  • Hydration and artificial feeding: permanent vegetative state
  • Human genetics and eugenics
  • Stem cells and reproductive technologies
  • Research on humans and non-humans
  • Bioethics, sport and doping
  • Non-conventional Medicine
  • Bioethics centers and ethics Committees
  • Ethical aspects of the protection of personality (transsexualism)

  Ethical aspects of the experimentation

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Textbook Information

• Bioethics
  
  • Cattorini Paolo - BIOETICA. Metodo ed elementi di base per affrontare problemi clinici. 4/ed. ELSEVIER Masson Italia, 2011 (ISBN/EAN: 9788821427824)
  • Russo Giovanni - BIOETICA MEDICA. Per medici e professionisti della sanità. Coop. S.Tom.- Elle Di Ci, Messina-Leumann (TO), 2009, 1° ed. (LDC010532-01 ISBN: 9788801042436)

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