SCIENZE UMANE - channel 2

6 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

ALESSANDRO LUTRI - Module PRINCIPI DI DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGIA - M-DEA/01 - 2 CFU
IGNAZIO VECCHIO - Module STORIA DELLA MEDICINA - MED/02 - 2 CFU
IGNAZIO VECCHIO - Module BIOETICA MEDICA - MED/02 - 2 CFU

Learning Objectives

STORIA DELLA MEDICINA
The History of Medicine aims to provide the medical student 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. The knowledge of the evolution of historical-medical human thought is essential in clinical training, developing in the student the propensity to approach the patient and to clinical research (historeo, from the Greek, means to research), essential conditions for the development of the "clinical sense. "both by drawing on the example of the great medical figures, and by getting used to the clinical reasoning that is indispensable in the applications of today's" Guidelines ".

Course Structure

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

Detailed Course Content

STORIA DELLA MEDICINA
History of informed consent, and of the doctor-patient 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 among the Greeks, Romans and in the Middle Ages. Medicine from the 14th to the 21st century.

Jewish and Arab Medicine.

The great diagnostic and therapeutic discoveries
BIOETICA MEDICA
The role of medical bioethics. Informed Consent and Medical-Patient Report. Humanization of Medicine. Quality of life: Clinic and Assistance for subjects suffering from serious chronic disabling and invalidating diseases. Vegetative State: Clinical Frameworks, care choices, support for vital functions, hydration, nutrition, quality of life. Therapeutic persistence, terminal illness, Euthanasia. Vegetative state. Brain death. Doctor's choices in clinical and care management at the end of life. The Clinical Frameworks and their management. ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) PEG and assisted ventilation. Genetic pathologies and their clinical pictures. Oncological pathologies. The elderly patient and his clinical and care management.

he role of medical bioethics. Informed Consent and Doctor-Patient Relationship. Humanization of Medicine.

Quality of life: Clinic and assistance of subjects suffering from serious chronic disabling and incapacitating diseases.

Vegetative state: Clinical pictures, care choices, support for vital functions, hydration, nutrition, quality of life.

Therapeutic fury, terminal illness, Euthanasia. Vegetative state. Brain death.

Doctor's choices in end-of-life clinical and care management.

Coma Clinical pictures and their management.

ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) PEG and assisted ventilation. Genetic pathologies and their clinical pictures.

Oncological pathologies. The elderly patient and his clinical and care management.

Muscular Dystrophies: Clinic, Assistance, Quality of life.

The epileptic patient and therapeutic choices. Epilepsy and pregnancy.

The certifications. The clinical record, the guidelines for therapeutic choices.

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