SCIENZE UMANISTICHEPhilosophical ScienceAcademic Year 2022/2023
1000170 - STORIA DELLA SCIENZA A - Z
Teacher: LUIGI INGALISO
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to ensure that students acquire a critical awareness of the history of science and in particular of the history of modern medicine and of some elements of paleopathology.
In particular, the course aims to make students achieve the following specific learning objectives:
1) Knowledge and insight.
The students possess the basic understanding of the historical development of medicine, know the work and critical reflection of the major representatives of modern medicine.
2) Applying knowledge and insight.
The students can address scientific issues and problems starting from their historical contextualization, opening to the possibility of referring them to contemporaneity and therefore to the understanding and resolution of problems within their own field of study and research, and beyond.
3) Judgment.
The students possess the ability to develop their own judgment on the major philosophical themes dealt with and can autonomously interpret the reflections present in the philosophical texts.
4) Communication.
The students are aware of how to present and communicate, both orally and in writing, the contents of the course and the critical reflections that start from it, reasoning logically and using the specific vocabulary of the discipline in an adequate manner.
5) Learning skills.
The students can actively participate in educational dialogue, enhancing the capacity for critical reflection on the development of their training path.Course Structure
Lectures.
Required Prerequisites
The student must know the history of the philosophical-scientific thought of the modern age.
Detailed Course Content
A) Basic Concepts: Medicine and Philosophy; B) A Scientific Biography of Giovan Filippo Ingrassia C) Palaeopathology of the Plague and Human Bioarchaeology.
Textbook Information
A. General Part of the Discipline: The Modern Medicine (1 ECTS):
M.D. Grmek (a cura di), Storia del pensiero medico occidentale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996, vol. II, pp. 3-92; 195-289.
B. The Ingrassia Case (2 ECTS):
L. Ingaliso, L’epidemiologia di Giovan Filippo Ingrassia e la Parte Quinta del Pestifero et contagioso morbo, Acireale-Roma, Bonanno, 2017, pp. 7-162.
C. Palaeopathology of the Plague and Human Bioarchaeology (3 ECTS):
F.M. Galassi, Uomini e microbi: l'eterna battaglia. Dalla preistoria al Coronavirus, Torino, EspressEdizioni, 2021, pp. 1-192.
Minozzi S., Canci A., Archeologia dei resti umani. Dallo scavo al laboratorio, Roma, Carocci, 2015, pp. 11-46, 61-92 e 117-142.
Course Planning
| | Subjects | Text References |
|---|
| 1 | Medicine in the modern age | |
| 2 | Giovan Filippo Ingrassia | |
| 3 | Paleopathology of the Plague. Definitions. | |
| 4 | Paleopathology of the Plague. From prehistoric times to Athens | |
| 5 | Paleopathology of the Plague. The Roman age | |
| 6 | Paleopathology of the Plague. The black plague | |
| 7 | Paleopathology of the Plague. The white plague | |
| 8 | Paleopathology of the Plague. The Spanish plague | |
| 9 | Paleopathology of the Plague. Vaccines and fake news. | |
| 10 | Human Bioarchaeology | |
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