History of Medicine
Code
11114
Academic unit
NOVA Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Department
TRA - Population Health
Credits
3
Teacher in charge
Prof. Doutor Pedro Soares Branco
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
General objectives:
To foster the humanistic side of the future physician by means of a proper knowledge of history of medicine.
Specific objectives:
To know the route of Medicine trough time, from pre-history to our days and to be able to relate the changes in Medicine with the historical times in which they took place.
To understand the hippocratical concepts and their importance as references to medical practice; to know the historical and social route of the profession and to understand, in each historical context, the role of the physician in society.
To learn Portuguese medical history (including the history of the Nova Medical School, in order to know the institution in which one will learn as a student).
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. The Roots of Medicine
2. Primitive Medicine
3. Ancient Medicine
4. Indian Medicine
5. Chinese Medicine
6. Hippocratic Medicine
7. Roman Medicine
8. Medieval Christian Medicine
9. Medieval Islamic Medicine
10. Renaissance Medicine
11. Enlightenment Medicine
12. Contemporary Medicine
13. History of Surgery
14. History of Psychiatry
15. Portuguese Medicine
SEMINAR
1. Medicine in Nazi Germany
Bibliography
Basic Bibliography
Porter, Roy: The Greatest Gift to Mankind - A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. Harper Collins Publishers 1997.
Lesson texts (Moodle)
Teaching method
Teaching Methologies
Theoretical lessons (duration: 50 minutes).
Evaluation method
Courses
