VLDE051 History of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Irena Wernerová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Irena Wernerová
Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Irena Wernerová
Supplier department: Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Mon 18. 9. to Fri 6. 10. Tue 15:00–16:40 B11/327
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objectives are to inform student on the main periods and tendencies of the history of medicine and to contribute to understanding of basic values of health care and health services system. Student will be able to evaluate importance of the history of medicine.
Syllabus
  • 1. Origin of medicine and health care. 2. Diseases and healing in a prehistoric society. 3. Christian tradition, Arabic, Chinese and Indian medicine, 4. European medicine in the Middle Ages. 5. Medicine in the Renaissance. 6. Medicine during the Enlightenment. 7. Development of the scientific medicine in the nineteenths century. 8. Medical care in the nineteenths century. 9. The advancement and limits of medicine in the twentieths century. 10. The past, the present, and the future of medicine and health care. 11. Personalities and basic data of the development of the Czech medicine and health care system. 12. The concise history of the Masaryk University, Medical faculty, and the teaching hospital.
Literature
  • GORDON, Richard. Podivuhodné dějiny lékařství. Translated by Růžena Loulová. 1. vyd. Praha: Melantrich, 1995. ISBN 8070232080. info
  • Největší dobrodiní lidstva :historie medicíny od starověku po současnost. Edited by Roy Porter - Jaroslav Hořejší. 1. vyd. Praha: PROSTOR, 2001, 807 s., ob. ISBN 80-7260-052-4. info
  • SCHOTT, Heinz. Kronika medicíny. Translated by Zdeněk Bureš. 1. vyd. Praha: Fortuna Print, 1994, 648 s., fo. ISBN 80-85873-16-8. info
Teaching methods
seminars
Assessment methods
credit
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 3x2 hodiny.
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2018, autumn 2019, autumn 2020, autumn 2021, autumn 2022, autumn 2023, autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
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