History of Medicine & Medical Terminology (PM301)
About This Course
This course is a survey of the history of medicine and health care, particularly in Western societies (Europe and North America), from antiquity to the present. Its general organization focuses on major topics rather than being chronologically based.
Course Objectives
The aims are:
- to sketch in thematic blocks main subject lines pertinent to the evolution and status of modern medicine and health care in its cultural context.
- to examine the ways in which the body, health and disease were conceptualized in the past, and to situate the major shifts in medical knowledge and practice in the context of broader historical changes in western societies.
- to examine the changing role of “the healer” and the “patient” over time and in differing cultural and social contexts.
- to track the evolution of some of the major institutional and societal frameworks of medicine and health care – embodied in areas of medical education, life science research, and hospital design and health care provision.
- to analyze the ways in which human societies and their healers interacted in the face of medical challenges, both in differing times and parallel cultural evolutions.
Material Includes
- 1The Western Medical Tradition 800 BC to 1800 AD, eds. L. I. Conrad, M. Never & V. Nutton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
- Medicine Transformed. Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1800-1930, ed. D. Brunton (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004)
- Companion Encyclopaedia of the History of Medicine (paperback), eds. W.F. Bynum & R.S. Porter (London, New York: Routledge, 1996)
Curriculum
48 Lessons
Introduction
After an introduction to some major themes, objectives, and sources of the history of medicine, it presents various pre-Modern areas of medicine by discussing topics from Ancient Medicine, such as the “Hippocratic Oath,” Re-naissance Medicine and Science, or the History of Anatomy since the time of the Greeks.
Pre-historic Medicine00:00
Ancient Egyptian Medicine14:14
Ancient Egyptian Psychiatry15:08
Ancient Alexandria30:32
Imhotep – The First Pyramid Builder7:00
Connecting Egyptian Medicine to Greek Medicine13:40
Meet The Ancient Greeks4:12
Ancient Athens – Modern Society Birthed??51:48
Lesson 9: History of medicine (Roman, Indian and Chinese)00:00
Medieval and Renaissance medicine00:00
Modern medicine
In their genealogy, the elder patient, the revolution in scientific and laboratory medicine, the rise of pathology and genetic approaches, public health, hu-man reproduction, and the development of medical specialization.
Historical and contemporary issues of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
To discuss this “parallel system,” present since the Medieval Ages, and its opposition to laboratory-based medicine.
Heroes, Rouges and Charlatans
Introduction to Medical Terminology
The Integumentary system
The Cardiovascular and Respiratory system
The Digestive system
The Reticuloendothelial system
The Genitourinary System
The Reproductive System
Free
Enrollment validity:
190 days
