aVLHZ021s Medical Humanities - seminar

Faculty of Medicine
Spring 2018
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
Thu 17:00–18:40 A19/113
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.
Learning outcomes
After completing the subject, the student will aquire comparative, analytic and argumentative abilities for medical humanities
Syllabus
  • • Homo sapiens patiens: antropological foundations of medicine • Ilness and ill person: hermeneutics of health and disease • Soma and psyche (Psychosomatics): body and mind in medicine • Cure and healing: the nature of medical therapeutical procedure • Medical ontology: medicine - art and science, Evidence Based Medicine • Medical epistemology: medical knowledge and thinking • Goals of medicine • Between power and sickness (authority, autenticity, and power in medicine) • Medicine and existencial experience • Freedom, action, moral action • Moral norm and its justification • Consciousness and conscience • Moral normativity in medicine • Relationships and their changes in medicine • Biomedicine - challenge and subject of reflection
Literature
  • A reader in medical anthropology : theoretical trajectories, emergent realities. Edited by Byron Good. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, xiv, 559. ISBN 9781405183147. info
  • Methods in medical ethics. Edited by Jeremy Sugarman - Daniel P. Sulmasy. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2010, xiii, 353. ISBN 9781589017016. info
  • The taste for knowledge : medical anthropology facing medical realities. Edited by Sylvie Fainzang - Hans Einar Hem - Mette Bech Risr. Arhus: Aarhus University Press, 2010, 258 p. ISBN 9788779345157. info
  • Understanding and applying medical anthropology. Edited by Peter J. Brown - Ronald L. Barrett. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010, xii, 468. ISBN 9780073405384. info
  • The Oxford handbook of bioethics. Edited by Bonnie Steinbock. 1st pub. in pbk. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, xviii, 747. ISBN 9780199562411. info
  • Medical anthropology. Edited by Robert Pool - Wenzel Geissler. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2005, viii, 172. ISBN 0335218504. info
  • Medical humanities. Edited by Martyn Evans - Ilora G. Finlay. London: BMJ, 2001, xi, 312 p. ISBN 0727916106. info
  • JONSEN, Albert R. A short history of medical ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, xi, 153. ISBN 0195134559. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
text analysis, essay
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
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).
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