THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING

Course objectives

To acquire an appropriate method and culture for a theoretical-practical training based on scientific bases and on a human relationship. To know the main stages of the evolution of medical thought also from a multicultural perspective. To know the origin, evolution and current use of the main terms used in medicine and learn to explain the conceptual implications.

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Course program
The module aims to: - Situate medical content within a framework of complexity from a historical and philosophical perspective. - Approach medical knowledge through an epistemological lens. - Understand the key elements of Foucault’s interpretation of the medical gaze and the language of medicine. - Identify the evolution of medical language in the description of nosological frameworks. - Conceptualize strictly medical data within a systemic vision. - Contextualize medical experience within its broader cultural framework. - Contemporary trends in medical pedagogy. - Laboratory activities on medical texts and on the relationship between medicine and philosophy. - Medicine, philosophy, and history: the case of M. Foucault. - Foucault’s intellectual formation and his production related to medicine. - Notes on M. Foucault, Madness and Civilization. - M. Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of the Medical Gaze – Introduction. - The medical gaze. - The space of the hospital. - Medical gaze and language.
Books
- M. Conforti, G. Corbellini, V. Gazzaniga, Dalla cura alla scienza. Malattia, salute e società nel mondo occidentale, Milano: EncycloMedia Publishers, 2011. - C. Grignon, D. Lefebvre, Médecins et philosophes. Une histoire, Paris: CNRS Editions; 2019. - I. Quaranta (ed.), Antropologia medica. I testi fondamentali, Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore; 2006. - M. Foucault, Nascita della clinica. Una archeologia dello sguardo medico, Torino 1998. - S. Catucci, Introduzione a Foucault, Bari 2019.
Bibliography
- M. Conforti, G. Corbellini, V. Gazzaniga, Dalla cura alla scienza. Malattia, salute e società nel mondo occidentale, Milano: EncycloMedia Publishers, 2011. - C. Grignon, D. Lefebvre, Médecins et philosophes. Une histoire, Paris: CNRS Editions; 2019. - I. Quaranta (ed.), Antropologia medica. I testi fondamentali, Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore; 2006. - M. Foucault, Nascita della clinica. Una archeologia dello sguardo medico, Torino 1998. - S. Catucci, Introduzione a Foucault, Bari 2019.
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseMedicine and Surgery
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year2nd year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDMED/02
  • CFU1