aVLHZ021p Medical Humanities - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
Mgr. Michaela Vaňharová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:40 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.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduces to medical humanities, medical anthropology and foundations of medical ethics.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will know the basics of 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
  • O'NEILL, Onora. Autonomy and trust in bioethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xi, 213. ISBN 0521894530. URL info
  • BLACKBURN, Simon. Being Good : a short introduction to ethics. 1st pub. as an Oxford Univer. Oxford: Oxford University, 2002, x, 162. ISBN 9780192853776. 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
  • JONAS, Hans. Princip odpovědnosti :pokus o etiku pro technologickou civilizaci. Translated by Břetislav Horyna - Zdeněk Bígl. Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1997, 318 s. ISBN 80-86005-06-2. info
Teaching methods
lecture
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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