Medicine and Surgery

History of medicine Introduction tho the history of medicine; methodology and sources for the history of medicine; historico-medical and epistemological topics relevant for a competent comprehension of the scientific and social contemporary debate; definition, goals and methods of the history of medicine; medicine as art, science and culture. Sources for the history of medicine: bodies, instruments, books, iconography. Conceptual evolution of the medical language. Conceptual history of the evolution of health and disease’s ideas: ontological concept of disease; disease as a rational topic; functional concept of disease; alchemic concept; contagion and disease; bacteriological concept of disease; omeoastasis, health and disease; molecular and genomic pathology.

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