VLHZ021s Medical Humanities - seminar

Faculty of Medicine
Spring 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michaela Vaňharová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Supplier department: Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Tue 17:00–18:40 A19/118
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The goal of the subject is to deepen the topics of the lectures in a seminar, based on the texts and their analysis.
Syllabus
  • 1. Homo sapiens patiens: antropological foundations of medicine 2. Ilness and ill person: hermeneutics of health and disease 3. Soma and psyche (Psychosomatics): body and mind in medicine 4. Cure and healing: the nature of medical therapeutical procedure 5. Medical ontology: medicine - art and science, Evidence Based Medicine 6. Medical epistemology: medical knowledge and thinking 7. Goals of medicine 8. Between power and sickness (authority, autenticity, and power in medicine) 9. Medicine and existencial experience 10. Freedom, action, moral action 11. Moral norm and its justification 12. Consciousness and conscience 13. Moral normativity in medicine 14. Relationships and their changes in medicine 15. Biomedicine - challenge and subject of reflection
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
texts´ analysis, essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Při zápisu předmětu mají přednost studenti vyšších ročníků.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět si lze zapsat pouze při souběžném zapsání přednášky VLHZ021p nebo při předchozím absolvování přednášky téhož předmětu (VLHZ021p).
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2017, recent)
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