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Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Physiotherapy
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2017/2018
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2017/2018
Credits: 
2
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
24
Requirements: 

none

Final Examination: 
Orale

(Gorini)
A written multiple choice test is eventually submitted for History of Medicine.
(Borgo)
The exam consists in an oral exam aiming to define the knowledge and comprehension

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

(Gorini)
The purpose of course is to encourage students to a critical reading of the cultural and historical medicine.
This purpose will be achieved by providing food for thought on some fundamental issues for several specialized areas of medicine.
(Borgo)
Learn to read “other” cultures, looking for the sense of existence, life and disease in the context in which phenomena occur.
“Decentralize” our gaze, and and re-discover ourselves in the other’s gaze.

(Gorini)
The frontal lessons are focused on the following topics:
- Definition of medicine. From medicine instinctive regular medicine.
- The basics of medicine in the classical world. The body of knowledge Hippocratic-galenical.
- Medication transmission.
- The European Medieval medicine and Universities. The medieval cookbooks.
- Large health problems from the Middle Ages to 'Modern Age. The protagonists of the cure. Places of medicine and places of science.
- The renewal in Modern science. The chapters progress of the knowledge of the human body. New knowledge of anatomy and physiology. The surgeons of the sixteenth century. The sides interpretations of doctrines iatrochemistry and iatromechanics. The optical zoom. Towards the demolition of the doctrine of spontaneous generation. The vaccination.
- The large medical systems to a new understanding of the disease. The mechanisms of social awareness and environmental factors in health and disease. The organ pathology. The victorious statements of basic sciences. The theory phone and cellular pathology.
- The scientific dimension of the nineteenth century. The clinic, hospitals and places of care. Knowledge of semeiotics. The theory phone and cellular pathology. The scene surgery. Medicine and surgery of war. The neutrality of the wounded. The experimental medicine. The identification of infectious agents. The talks between the clinic and laboratory.
- The mental illness. From structures for med men to the mental hospital.

(Borgo)
1. Definition and origin of anthropology; the culture concept
2. The body: language, communication, place and non-place
3. Funeral rites; the mortal and the immortality
4. Rites, Magic and Religion
5. Obedience to authority; the nature of power
6. Relationship: Family and Marriage
Topics under discussion are aimed at helping students to understand that, even if peoples are different, there are some “universals” which are a confirmation of the humankind unitary.

(Gorini)
G. ARMOCIDA - B. ZANOBIO, Storia della medicina, Masson, Milano 2002

G. ARMOCIDA, Donne naturalmente, Franco Angeli, Milano 2011

(Borgo)
U. Fabietti, Elementi di Antropologia Culturale, Mondadori Università, Milano 2015
or
C.R. Ember, M. Ember, Antropologia culturale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005.

(Gorini)
The course consists in 8 hours of lectures. The lectures are supported by the projection of images. The minimum attendance frequency required is 75% of the program.

The Professor is available for further clarification and doubts only by appointment, after an e-mail request.