History of science

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: LUIGI INGALISO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Examination of the principal changes of the modern medicine.

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

Course Structure

Lectures.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory.

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.

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
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